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The Cambridge companion to Virgil / edited by Fiachra Mac Góráin, Charles Martindale.

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Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Virgil -- Criticism and interpretation.

"The poet Virgil remains the most significant and influential figure in Latin literature, and this expanded and updated Companion covers his life, work, and reception from antiquity to the present. The Aeneid, the Eclogues, the Georgics, and the Appendix Vergiliana are all discussed, as are art, history, politics, and philosophy; Virgil's literary style is carefully explored along with poetic traditions before and since, and chapters engage with his poems and their reception from perspectives including intertextuality, narratology, gender theory, philology and historicism. Leading authors cover topics from translations and commentaries to genre, authority, and characterisation, providing revised and updated recommendations for further reading. This volume is an accessible introduction to Virgil and his legacy for students and teachers, while also providing wide-ranging and in-depth investigations that will appeal to scholars of classical literature and other disciplines." -- Publisher's description

Cambridge companions to literature

Cambridge companions to literature

xvi, 549 pages ; 23 cm.

Second edition.

Introduction: 'the classic of all Europe' / Charles Martindale -- Part I. Receptions. Modern receptions and their interpretative implications: the case of T. S. Eliot / Duncan F. Kennedy -- Aspects of Virgil's reception in antiquity / Richard Tarrant -- The Appendix Vergiliana / Scott McGill -- Augustine's Virgil / Gillian Clark -- The Virgil commentary of Servius / Don Fowler (revised by Sergio Casali and Fabio Stok) -- Post-classical commentary / Sergio Casali and Fabio Stok -- Virgil in English translation / Colin Burrow -- Virgils from Dante to Milton / Colin Burrow -- Virgil in art / L. B. T. Houghton -- Part II. Forms. Green politics: the Eclogues / Charles Martindale -- Virgilian didaxis: value and meaning in the Georgics / William W. Batstone -- Virgilian epic / Duncan F. Kennedy -- Closure and the Book of Virgil / Elena Theodorakopoulos -- Part III. Contexts. Poetry and power: Virgil's poetry in a contemporary context / Richard Tarrant -- Rome and its traditions / James E. G. Zetzel -- Virgil and the cosmos: religious and philosophical ideas / Susanna Braund -- Virgil's intertextual personae / Joseph Farrell -- Virgil and tragedy / Philip Hardie -- Part IV. Themes. Virgil as a poet / Victoria Moul -- Virgil's style / James J. O'Hara -- Character in Virgil / Helen Lovatt -- Virgilian narrative: storytelling / Don Fowler (revised by Alessandro Barchiesi) -- Virgilian narrative: ecphrasis / Alessandro Barchiesi -- Sons and lovers: sexuality and gender in Virgil's poetry / Ellen Oliensis -- Authority / Fiachra Mac Góráin -- Envois. The death of Virgil / Fiona Cox -- Virgil: the future? / Fiachra Mac Góráin -- Dateline / compiled by Genevieve Liveley.

Mac Góráin, Fiachra, editor.

Martindale, Charles. editor.

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