The Cambridge Companion to VirgilCharles 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 sophisticated insights which point to the shape of Virgilian scholarship and criticism to come. |
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... figures personify Virgil's books: Aeneas stands beside Servius, whilebelow them a farmer pruningavine represents the Georgics and a shepherd symbolises the Eclogues. The twoLatin inscriptions make the meaning ofthe image clear: 'Italy ...
... figures personify Virgil's books: Aeneas stands beside Servius, whilebelow them a farmer pruningavine represents the Georgics and a shepherd symbolises the Eclogues. The twoLatin inscriptions make the meaning ofthe image clear: 'Italy ...
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... the implicationof lines360–1 where cattle low in what willbea fashionable district ofthe city,the 'chic' Carinae (lautis Carinis). The nunc/olim figure in 348 is itself ambiguous since olim can refer to past or future: either 'golden now,
... the implicationof lines360–1 where cattle low in what willbea fashionable district ofthe city,the 'chic' Carinae (lautis Carinis). The nunc/olim figure in 348 is itself ambiguous since olim can refer to past or future: either 'golden now,
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... figures) including pathos. This reading,however, cameunder pressure asa result ofthe English Revolutionand the subsequentrise of Whiggism, with itscommitment toBritish liberty andits enthusiasm forthe old Roman Republic. Thosewho wished ...
... figures) including pathos. This reading,however, cameunder pressure asa result ofthe English Revolutionand the subsequentrise of Whiggism, with itscommitment toBritish liberty andits enthusiasm forthe old Roman Republic. Thosewho wished ...
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... figures'. The senseof history's (retrospective) inevitability survives allsuch gesturesof protest. In other words there isa paradoxical element of 'congruence' between a poetics oflossand absence andan ideology ofconquest andwar.The ...
... figures'. The senseof history's (retrospective) inevitability survives allsuch gesturesof protest. In other words there isa paradoxical element of 'congruence' between a poetics oflossand absence andan ideology ofconquest andwar.The ...
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... figure synecdocheand witha particular emphasison the Anglophone tradition – anything less selective wouldinthe space availablebe little morethan a list which would not teach thereader a great deal.27And indeedall historical ...
... figure synecdocheand witha particular emphasison the Anglophone tradition – anything less selective wouldinthe space availablebe little morethan a list which would not teach thereader a great deal.27And indeedall historical ...
Contents
COLIN BURROW 3 Modern receptions andtheirinterpretative implications | |
Aspects of Virgils reception in antiquity | |
The Virgil commentaryof Servius | |
Virgil in | |
the Eclogues | |
value and meaning in the Georgics | |
religious and philosophical ideas | |
The Virgilian intertext | |
Virgils style | |
Virgilian narrative | |
b Ecphrasis | |
Approaching characterisation in Virgil | |
sexuality and gender in Virgils poetry | |
Virgil | |
Virgilian epic | |
the Book of Virgil | |
Virgils poetry incontemporary context | |
Rome and its traditions | |
the death of Virgil | |
Index | |
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