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Virgil's Epic Technique

✍ Scribed by Richard Heinze

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
1994
Tongue
English
Leaves
440
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

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.

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