The Poetry of Pathos: Studies in Virgilian Epic / Edition 2

The Poetry of Pathos: Studies in Virgilian Epic / Edition 2

ISBN-10:
0199287015
ISBN-13:
9780199287017
Pub. Date:
07/12/2007
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
ISBN-10:
0199287015
ISBN-13:
9780199287017
Pub. Date:
07/12/2007
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
The Poetry of Pathos: Studies in Virgilian Epic / Edition 2

The Poetry of Pathos: Studies in Virgilian Epic / Edition 2

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Overview

This 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 very broad 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780199287017
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 07/12/2007
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 240
Product dimensions: 8.70(w) x 5.81(h) x 0.82(d)

About the Author

Gian Biagio Conte is Professor of Latin Literature at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa.
S. J. Harrison is Fellow and Tutor in Classics, Corpus Christi College, and Professor of Classical Languages and Literature at the University of Oxford.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction, S. J. Harrison2. The Virgilian Paradox: An Epic of Drama and Pathos3. Anatomy of a Style: Enallage and the New Sublime4. Aristaeus, Orpheus, and the Georgics Again5. The Strategy of Contradiction: On the Dramatic Form of the Aeneid6. Defensor Vergili: Richard Heinze on Virgil's Epic Technique7. Towards a New Exegesis of Virgil: Reconsiderations and Proposals8. The Meeting of Stylistics and Textual Criticism9. Proems in the Middle
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