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The Poetry of Pathos

Studies in Virgilian Epic

Gian Biagio Conte author S J Harrison editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Published:24th May '07

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This volume presents a collection of pieces from a celebrated world-class scholar and interpreter of Latin poetry, focusing on the interpretation of Virgil's Aeneid.. It forms the sequel to two widely influential earlier books on Virgil by the same author and translates and adds to a collection of papers published in Italian in 2002. Its central concern is the way in which Virgil reworks earlier poetry (especially that of Homer) at the most detailed level to produce very broad literary and emotional effects. Gian Biaggio Conte explores a central issue in Virgilian studies, that of how the Aeneid manages to create a new and effective mode of epic in a period when the genre appears to be debased or exhausted.

...readers will welcome this collection of papers in Virgilian epic by an Italian scholar who has greatly influenced English-language Latin literary studies. * J. D. Reed, The Classical Review *
Splendidly proofread and beautifully produced...one of the most welcome new Virgil titles of the year. Essential. * L. M. Fratantuono, Choice *
...a very important book which adds much to our understanding of Virgil. * Bryn Mawr Review *
...outstanding...compelling... * TLS, 15/02/08 *

ISBN: 9780199287017

Dimensions: 223mm x 145mm x 19mm

Weight: 446g

258 pages