The Cambridge Companion to VirgilCharles Martindale, Emeritus Professor of Latin Charles Martindale Virgil became a school author in his own lifetime and the centre of the Western canon for the next 1800 years, exerting a major influence on European literature, art, and politics. This Companion is designed as an indispensable guide for anyone seeking a fuller understanding of an author critical to so many disciplines. It consists of essays by seventeen scholars from Britain, the USA, Ireland and Italy which offer a range of different perspectives both traditional and innovative on Virgil s works, and a renewed sense of why Virgil matters today. The Companion is divided into four main sections, focussing on reception, genre, context, and form. This ground-breaking book not only provides a wealth of material for an informed reading but also offers fresh and sophisticated insights which point to the shape of Virgilian scholarship and criticism to come. |
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Contents
Introduction The classic of all Europe | 1 |
Translation and reception | 19 |
Virgil in English translation | 21 |
Modern receptions and their interpretative implications | 38 |
Aspects of Virgils reception in antiquity | 56 |
The Virgil commentary of Servius | 73 |
Virgils from Dante to Milton | 79 |
Virgil in art | 91 |
Rome and its traditions | 188 |
Virgil and the cosmos religious and philosophical ideas | 204 |
The Virgilian intertext | 222 |
Contents and forms | 239 |
Virgils style | 241 |
Virgilian narrative | 259 |
Ecphrasis | 271 |
Approaching characterisation in Virgil | 282 |
Genre and poetic career | 105 |
Green politics the Eclogues | 107 |
Virgilian didaxis value and meaning in the Georgics | 125 |
Virgilian epic | 145 |
Closure the Book of Virgil | 155 |
Contexts of production | 167 |
Poetry and power Virgils poetry in contemporary context | 169 |
Sons and lovers sexuality and gender in Virgils poetry | 294 |
Virgil and tragedy | 312 |
Envoi the death of Virgil | 327 |
Dateline | 337 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Cambridge Companion to Virgil Cambridge Companions to Literature Cambridge collections online Cambridge companions complete collection Cambridge companions to |
| Editors | Charles Martindale, Emeritus Professor of Latin Charles Martindale |
| Contributors | Publius Vergilius Maro, Cambridge University Press |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 1997 |
| ISBN | 0521498856, 9780521498852 |
| Length | 370 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Ancient / General Literary Criticism / Ancient & Classical Literary Criticism / Poetry |
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