Early Augustan Virgil

Virgil and the Augustan Reception

✍ Richard F. Thomas 📂 Library 📅 2001 🌐 English

This book examines the ideological reception of Virgil at specific moments in the past two millennia. It focuses on the emperor Augustus in the poetry of Virgil, detects in the poets and grammarians of antiquity pro- and anti-Augustan readings, studies Dryden's 1697 Royalist translation, and also na

Virgil and the Augustan Reception

📁 Virgil and the Augustan Reception

✍ Richard F. Thomas 📂 Library 📅 2001 🌐 English

This book examines the ideological reception of Virgil at specific moments in the past two millennia. It focuses on the emperor Augustus in the poetry of Virgil, detects in the poets and grammarians of antiquity pro- and anti-Augustan readings, studies Dryden's 1697 Royalist translation, and also na

Virgil and the Augustan Reception

📁 Virgil and the Augustan Reception

✍ Richard F. Thomas 📂 Library 📅 2004 🏛 Cambridge University Press 🌐 English

This book examines the ideological reception of Virgil at specific moments in the past two millennia. It focuses on the emperor Augustus in the poetry of Virgil, detects in the poets and grammarians of antiquity pro- and anti-Augustan readings, studies Dryden's 1697 Royalist translation, and also na

Virgil's Augustan Epic

📁 Virgil's Augustan Epic

✍ Francis Cairns 📂 Library 📅 2006 🌐 English

Virgil's Augustan Epic

📁 Virgil's Augustan Epic

✍ Francis Cairns 📂 Library 📅 2006 🌐 English

An examination of the main characters in the Aeneid - Aeneas himself, Dido and Turnus - in the light of Virgil's contemporary Augustan political and literary ideology. The characters and the plot and incident of the epic are seen as embodying and exemplifying first the ancient ideals of kingship and

San Agustin - St Augustine

📁 San Agustin - St Augustine

✍ Melinda Lilly 📂 Library 📅 2005 🏛 Rourke 🌐 Spanish

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