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Vergil's Aeneid : Augustan Epic and Political Context.
A collection of 14 papers in which contributors use diverging critical methods on a selection of extracts from Vergil's epic, with the examination of political references in the work being prominent, as well as the question of the Aeneid's central meaning. -- Amazon.com.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Swansea :
Classical Press of Wales, The,
2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Vergil announcing the Aeneid. On Georg. 3.1-48 / Egil Kraggerud
- Religion in the politics of Augustus / Gunther Gottlieb
- Political stop-overs on a mythological travel route: from battling harpies to the Battle of Actium / Hans-Peter Stahl
- Peopling of the underworld / Anton Powell
- Vergil as a republican / Eckard Lefèvre
- Show must go on: the death of Marcellus and the future of the Augustan principate / Reinhold F. Glei
- Allecto's first victim: a study of Vergil's Amata / Elaine Fantham
- Opening the gates of war / Don Fowler
- Assimilation and civil war: Hercules and Cacus / Llewelyn Morgan
- Non enarrabile textum? the shield of Aeneas and the triple triumph in 29 BC / Alexander G. McKay
- Sword-belt of Pallas: moral symbolism and political ideology / Stephen Harrison
- Fame and defamation in the Aeneid: the council of Latins / Philip Hardie
- Isolation of Turnus / Richard F. Thomas
- End and the meaning / David West.