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"Virgil offers undergraduates, graduate students and general readers a comprehensive and carefully balanced introduction to the works and literary reception of Virgil. Offers a fresh, comprehensive introduction to Virgil in translation. Explores the historical context in which Virgil wrote and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Smith, R. Alden
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
Colección:Blackwell introductions to the classical world.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Generalizing about Virgil: Dialogue, wisdom, mission ; Of codes and codices ; Code of readership ; Poetic craft ; Thematic contours ; Poetic models ; Virgil's allusive (and imitative) style ; Telling themes: Virgil and story
  • 2: Publius Vergilius Maro: A preamble ; The proto-Augustan milieu ; The Augustan context ; Patronage: Pollio, Maecenas, and Augustus
  • 3: Eclogue dialogues ; L'arte allusiva: Virgil's imitative style ; Poetic pairings ; Eclogues 1 and 9 ; Eclogues 2 and 8 ; Eclogues 3 and 7.