Author : Virgil Elliott
Publisher : Watson-Guptill
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,62 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Oils and fats
ISBN : 9780823030668
"Traditional Oil Painting is that rare sourcebook that comprehensively covers the most advanced techniques and concepts of oil painting"--P. [2] of cover.
Author : Virgil
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 38,56 MB
Release : 2012-03-12
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0486113973
Monumental epic poem tells the heroic story of Aeneas, a Trojan who escaped the burning ruins of Troy to found Lavinium, the parent city of Rome, in the west.
Author : Philip R. Hardie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 37,72 MB
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521425629
A critically sophisticated introduction to the epic tradition of the early Roman empire.
Author : Monica R. Gale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 42,44 MB
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1139428470
The Georgics has for many years been a source of fierce controversy among scholars of Latin literature. Is the work optimistic or pessimistic, pro- or anti-Augustan? Should we read it as a eulogy or a bitter critique of Rome and her imperial ambitions? This book suggests that the ambiguity of the poem is the product of a complex and thorough-going engagement with earlier writers in the didactic tradition: Hesiod, Aratus and - above all - Lucretius. Drawing on both traditional, philological approaches to allusion, and modern theories of intertextuality, it shows how the world-views of the earlier poets are subjected to scrutiny and brought into conflict with each other. Detailed consideration of verbal parallels and of Lucretian themes, imagery and structural patterns in the Georgics forms the basis for a reading of Virgil's poem as an extended meditation on the relations between the individual and society, the gods and the natural environment.
Author : Joseph Farrell
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 50,95 MB
Release : 2010-03-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781444318067
A Companion to Vergil’s Aeneid and its Tradition presents a collection of original interpretive essays that represent an innovative addition to the body of Vergil scholarship. Provides fresh approaches to traditional Vergil scholarship and new insights into unfamiliar aspects of Vergil's textual history Features contributions by an international team of the most distinguished scholars Represents a distinctively original approach to Vergil scholarship
Author : Joseph Farrell
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 10,65 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
In this important and original new book, Joseph Farrell argues that there is a detailed and extensive program of literary allusion in Vergil's Georgics, moving basically from Hesiod and Aratus in the first book, to Lucretius in the middle two, to Homer in the fourth. This program involves what he calls "analytic" allusion, namely a reconstruction or interpretation of the texts alluded to; and, he contends, the direction of the allusion, moving from Hesiod (and perhaps Alexandrian poetics) toward Homer and heroic epic, helps to clarify the development of Vergil's poetic career, which moves from the Callimacheanism of the Eclogues to the full-fledged epic of the Aeneid. Applying to the Georgics the full range of recent scholarly methodology, Farrell's pathbreaking book will be of great interest to all scholars and students of Vergil, classical literature, and literary allusion.
Author : Richard Jenkyns
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 729 pages
File Size : 30,21 MB
Release : 1998-11-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 019158455X
This book studies Virgil's ideas of nature, history, sense of nation, and sense of identity. It is exact and patient in its probing for nuance and detail, but also bold, wide, and original in its scope. It combines the study of Virgil with the study of attitudes to nature throughout antiquity. Blending literature with history, and in the case of Lucretius, philosophy, it offers a vision and an interpretation of the culture of the 1st century BC as a whole. It argues that Lucretius and Virgil affected a revolution in Western sensibility; claiming that a book about poetry should be a book about life, it combines scholarship and precision with a sense of the importance of literature and its capacity to enhance our understanding of our past and of ourselves.
Author : Wendell Vernon Clausen
Publisher :
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 18,20 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520057913
Author : Richard F. Thomas
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 44,78 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472108978
Dynamic textual interplay: inherent and inherited
Author : David Scott Wilson-Okamura
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 45,41 MB
Release : 2010-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0521198127
The disciplines of classical scholarship were established in their modern form between 1300 and 1600, and Virgil was a test case for many of them. This book is concerned with what became of Virgil in this period, how he was understood, and how his poems were recycled. What did readers assume about Virgil in the long decades between Dante and Sidney, Petrarch and Spenser, Boccaccio and Ariosto? Which commentators had the most influence? What story, if any, was Virgil's Eclogues supposed to tell? What was the status of his Georgics? Which parts of his epic attracted the most imitators? Building on specialized scholarship of the last hundred years, this book provides a panoramic synthesis of what scholars and poets from across Europe believed they could know about Virgil's life and poetry.
