β Scribed by Richard Heinze
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
The great German philologist Richard Heinzeβs Virgils Epische Technik was originally published in German in 1903. It was the outstanding book on Virgil in its day, and it remains a very valuable study of the techniques Virgil used to compose the Aeneid. This English translation by Hazel Harvey, David Harvey and Fred Robertson was published in 1994, with an introduction by Antonie Wlosok.
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Heinzes study, originally published in German in 1903, remains a classic of Virgil scholarship. This translation makes the book available in English for the first time.
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
<div>This book by one of the preeminent Virgil scholars of our day is the first comprehensive study of ekphrasis in Virgilβs final masterpiece, the <i>Aeneid. </i>Virgil uses ekphrasisΒa self-contained aside that generates a pause in the narrative to describe a work of art or other objectΒto tell us