The ancient lives of Virgil : literary and historical studies /

The Ancient Lives of the poet Virgil, written in prose (and sometimes in verse), have long enjoyed great, though controversial, influence. Modern critics have often been scornful of these Lives, for trying to construct biography of the poet from allegorical reading of his verse. Yet some elements of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hardie, Philip (Editor ), Powell, Anton (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Swansea : Classical Press of Wales, The, [2017]
Temas:
Virgil.
Virgil
POETRY > Ancient, Classical & Medieval.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Between biography and commentary: the ancient horizon of expectation of VSD / Irene Peirano Garrison
  • Fashioning the poet: biography, pseudepigraphy and textual criticism / Andrew Laird
  • Biography and Virgil's epitaph / Ahuvia Kahane
  • The Vitae Phocae: literary context and texture / Stephen Harrison
  • Larger than life: the elevation of Virgil in Phocas' Vita Vergiliana / Scott McGill
  • Cameo roles: Virgil in Ovidian biography / Nora Goldschmidt
  • The Vita Donati in the Middle Ages / Fabio Stok
  • The historical truth of Vergil's recitation of the Georgics at Atella (VSD 27) / Hans Smolenaars
  • Sinning against philology? Method and the Suetonian-Donatan Life of Virgil / Anton Powell.

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