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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... fromthe Vatican Virgil, early fifth century. Vatican Library, Rome(Cod. Vat.Lat. 3225, fol. 18v). Photo: Biblioteca Vaticana. 4a The stormwith Aeneas shipwrecked off thecoastof NorthAfrica. Miniature from Eclogues, Georgics, Aeneid ...
... fromthe Vatican Virgil, early fifth century. Vatican Library, Rome(Cod. Vat.Lat. 3225, fol. 18v). Photo: Biblioteca Vaticana. 4a The stormwith Aeneas shipwrecked off thecoastof NorthAfrica. Miniature from Eclogues, Georgics, Aeneid ...
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... the Trusteesof The National Gallery, London. 12b Samuel Palmer, Eclogue8: Openingthe Fold, 1880. Etching from TheEclogues ofVirgil:An English Version, 1883. Photo: The Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge. 13a Stourhead, Wiltshire.
... the Trusteesof The National Gallery, London. 12b Samuel Palmer, Eclogue8: Openingthe Fold, 1880. Etching from TheEclogues ofVirgil:An English Version, 1883. Photo: The Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge. 13a Stourhead, Wiltshire.
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... from what some might see as the 'margins' of Europe, seems to be laying claim to a share of the dominant cultural authority of the 'centre'. Therehas recently been vigorous and often acrimonious debate about the status and significance of ...
... from what some might see as the 'margins' of Europe, seems to be laying claim to a share of the dominant cultural authority of the 'centre'. Therehas recently been vigorous and often acrimonious debate about the status and significance of ...
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... since it would no longer be 'we' who were doing the reading.14 Interpretation is situated, contingent upontime and place and ideological preconception,is alwaysmade from within history. The point seems so obviousas to be not worth ...
... since it would no longer be 'we' who were doing the reading.14 Interpretation is situated, contingent upontime and place and ideological preconception,is alwaysmade from within history. The point seems so obviousas to be not worth ...
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... from the unvalued and belongs to a totality of literature rather than to an archive of hopelessly diverse documents,.20 One obvious sensein which aclassic ... A history of the British reception of the Aeneid from 1600 shows how the politics.
... from the unvalued and belongs to a totality of literature rather than to an archive of hopelessly diverse documents,.20 One obvious sensein which aclassic ... A history of the British reception of the Aeneid from 1600 shows how the politics.
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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