The Aeneid of Virgil
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published:1st Jun '91
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
The Aeneid of Virgil is one of the greatest works of Classical antiquity. In this study the poetic qualities of epic are analysed and illustrated by frequent quotations from the Latin, always with prose translations. The book will be appreciated by students and teachers of literature, and by knowledgeable non-academic readers.
The Aeneid of Virgil is one of the greatest works of Classical antiquity. This study by the Virgilian scholar R. Deryck Williams, first published in 1987 and long unavailable, sets the Aeneid in its historical literary background and shows how Virgil related his own world of the newly established Roman Empire to the experience of the past. The poetic qualities of epic are analysed and illustrated by frequent quotations from the Latin, always with prose translations. The book will be appreciated by students and teachers of literature, and by knowledgeable non-academic readers.
ISBN: 9780862920449
Dimensions: 215mm x 136mm x 8mm
Weight: 200g
152 pages