Pietas from Vergil to Dryden /
For centuries the most revered poem in the Western literary canon, Vergil's Aeneid celebrates the Roman virtue of pietas. In the preface to his English translation of the poem, John Dryden attempts to explain all that this virtue includes: "Piety alone," he writes, "comprehends t...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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University Park, Pa. :
Pennsylvania State University Press,
©1992.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Pietas
- 2. Auctores Pietatis: Classical and Christian Ideas of Pietas
- 3. History: Pietas and Roman Destiny
- 4. Governance: Royal and Ecclesiastical Pietas in the Middle Ages
- 5. Love: Dido and Pietas in the Early Renaissance
- 6. War: Turnus and Pietas in the Later Renaissance
- 7. Heredes Pietatis: Pietas and Piety in the Work of John Dryden.