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Virgil and the Augustan reception /

"This book is an examination of the ideological reception of Virgil at specific moments in the last two millennia. Following Tennyson's evaluation of Virgil - "Thou majestic in thy sadness / at the doubtful doom of human kind"--Richard Thomas first scrutinizes the Virgil traditio...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Thomas, Richard F., 1950-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: the critical landscape
  • 1. Virgil and Augustus
  • 2. Virgil and the poets: Horace, Ovid and Lucan
  • 3. Other voices in Servius: schooldust of the ages
  • 4. Dryden's Virgil and the politics of translation
  • 5. Dido and her translators
  • 6. Philology and textual cleansing
  • 7. Virgil in a cold climate: fascist reception
  • 8. Beyond the borders of Eboli: anti-fascist reception
  • 9. Critical and games.