Virgil: Aeneid Book IX

Name: Virgil: Aeneid Book IX
Author: Virgil

Specificaties

Paperback, 268 blz. | Engels

Cambridge University Press | 1994

ISBN13: 9780521359528

Rubricering

Hoofdrubriek : Literatuur en romans

Cambridge University Press e druk, 1994 9780521359528

Onderdeel van serie Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics

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Samenvatting

Aeneid IX marks the beginning of the full-scale narrative of the war between the Trojans and Turnus' Italians which occupies the last quarter of the epic. Two days during which Turnus launches a siege-assault on the Trojan camp while Aeneas is absent are separated by the nocturnal interlude of the ill-fated expedition of the romantic young Trojans Nisus and Euryalus. In this, the first major single-volume commentary in English on the book, Dr Hardie explores Virgil's transformation of Homeric models of battle narrative in the service of contemporary Roman ideology. The volume includes a detailed linguistic and thematic commentary on the text, and an introduction consisting of a series of interpretative essays on the book.

Specificaties

ISBN13:9780521359528

Taal:Engels

Bindwijze:paperback

Aantal pagina's:268

Uitgever:Cambridge University Press

Verschijningsdatum:10-11-1994

Hoofdrubriek:Literatuur en romans

Serie:Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics

Inhoudsopgave

Introduction; 1. The place of book IX in the second half of the Aeneid; 2. The structure of book IX; 3. Links with other books; 4. Reworking Homer; 5. Cities and sieges; solidarity and division; 6. Young men at war; defining the epic hero; Trojans and Italians; 7. Turnus; 8. Homeric gods and Roman religion; knowledge human and divine; recognition; 9. The Nisus and Euryalus episode; P. Vergili Maronis Aeneidos Liber IX; Commentary; Indexes.