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Control # 1 2013497477
Control # Id 3 DLC
Date 5 20190911110852.0
Fixed Data 8 141017s2014 enkaf b 001 0 eng c
LC Card 10    $a 2013497477
National Bib 15    $aGBB417505$2bnb
ISBN 20    $a9781780762470 (hardback)
ISBN 20    $a178076247X
ISBN 20    $z9780857735065 (eISBN)
Local Ctrl # 35    $a(OCoLC)ocn879010202
Obsolete 39    $a296545$cTLC
Cat. Source 40    $aERL$beng$cERL$erda$dOCLCO$dDGU$dMUU$dOCLCF$dYDXCP$dCOO$dDLC
Authen. Ctr. 42    $apcc
LC Call 50 00 $aPA6825$b.H35 2014
Dewey Class 82 04 $a871.01$223
ME:Pers Name 100 $aHardie, Philip R.$eauthor.
Title 245 14 $aThe last Trojan hero :$ba cultural history of Virgil's Aeneid /$cPhilip Hardie.
Tag 264 264  1 $aLondon ;$aNew York :$bI.B. Tauris,$c2014.
Tag 264 264  2 $aNew York, NY :$bPalgrave MacMillan
Phys Descrpt 300    $axi, 249 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations (some color) ;$c25 cm
Tag 336 336    $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
Tag 337 337    $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
Tag 338 338    $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
Note:Bibliog 504    $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 221-237) and index.
Note:Content 505 $aIntroduction -- Underworlds -- 'La donna è mobile': Versions of Dido -- The many faces of Aeneas -- Empire and nation -- Imperium sine Fine: The Aeneid and Christianity -- The Aeneid and New Worlds -- Parody and burlesque -- Art and landscape.
Abstract 520    $a'I sing of arms and of a man: his fate had made him fugitive: he was the first to journey from the coasts of Troy as far as Italy and the Lavinian shores.' The resonant opening lines of Virgil's 'Aeneid' rank among the most famous and consistently recited verses to have been passed down to later ages by antiquity. And after the 'Odyssey' and the 'Iliad', Virgil's masterpiece is arguably the greatest classical text in the whole of Western literature. This sinuous and richly characterised epic vitally influenced the poetry of Dante, Petrarch and Milton. The doomed love of Dido and Aeneas inspired Purcell, while for T.S. Eliot Virgil's poem was 'the classic of all Europe'. The poet's stirring tale of a refugee Trojan prince, 'torn from Libyan waves' to found a new homeland in Italy, has provided much fertile material for writings on colonialism and for discourses of ethnic and national identity. The 'Aeneid' has even been viewed as a template and a source of philosophical justification for British and American imperialism and adventurism. In his major new book Philip Hardie explores the many remarkable afterlives - ancient, medieval and modern - of the 'Aeneid' in literature, music, politics, the visual arts and film -- Dust jacket.
Local Note 590    $aRecommended in Resources for College Libraries
Subj:Pers 600 00 $aVirgil.$tAeneis.
Subj:Pers 600 00 $aVirgil$xInfluence.
Subj:Pers 600 00 $aVirgil$xAppreciation$xHistory.
Subj:Pers 600 00 $aVirgil$xCriticism and interpretation.
Subj:Pers 600 00 $aAeneas$c(Legendary character)