The Poetry of Pathos: Studies in Virgilian EpicThis volume presents a collection of pieces from a celebrated world-class scholar and interpreter of Latin poetry, focusing on the interpretation of Virgil's Aeneid.. It forms the sequel to two widely influential earlier books on Virgil by the same author and translates and adds to a collection of papers published in Italian in 2002. Its central concern is the way in which Virgil reworks earlier poetry (especially that of Homer) at the most detailed level to produce verybroad literary and emotional effects. Gian Biaggio Conte explores a central issue in Virgilian studies, that of how the Aeneid manages to create a new and effective mode of epic in a period when the genre appears to be debased or exhausted. |
Contents
Introduction by Stephen Harrison | 1 |
An Epic | 23 |
Enallage and | 58 |
Copyright | |
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The Poetry of Pathos:Studies in Virgilian Epic: Studies in Virgilian Epic Gian Biagio Conte No preview available - 2007 |
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adjective Aeneas Aeneid Ajax Alexandrian ancient Apollonius Apollonius Rhodius Aristaeus arma Augustan become Bugonia Callimachus Catullus character commentary commentator construction Conte's context contradictions critical cultural death defamiliarization deviation didactic Dido dramatic effect elements emotions enallage Ennius epic epyllion Euripides example exegesis expressive fact Fate feature formulation fossae function genre Georgics gesture Heinze Heinze's hero Homer hypallage idea ideological Iliad imitation individual interpretation judgement Klingner language Latin literature linguistic literary Lucretius meaning Mezentius modern myth mythic narration narrative nature Norden norm normal object original Orpheus parallel passage pathos phrase poem poet poet's poetic discourse poetry point of view precisely proem Pseudo-Longinus reader reading refer reprinted in Conte rhetorical Roman sanguine scholars seems sense Servius Sophocles story structure style stylistic sublime syntactical syntax technique theme tion tradition tragic translated in Conte truth Turnus verb verbal verse violation Virgil Virgilian words