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Style and Tradition
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 348

Style and Tradition

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Style and Tradition
  • Language: en

Style and Tradition

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1998
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Harvard Studies in Classical Philology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 278

Harvard Studies in Classical Philology

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A Commentary on Virgil, Eclogues
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 328

A Commentary on Virgil, Eclogues

Surprisingly, this is the first full-scale scholarly commentary on the Eclogues to appear in this century. These ten short pastorals are among the best known poems in Latin literature. Clausen's commentary provides a comprehensive guide to both the poems and the considerable scholarship surrounding them. There are short introductions to each poem, as well as a general introduction to the Eclogues as a whole.

Virgil's Aeneid and the Tradition of Hellenistic Poetry
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 183

Virgil's Aeneid and the Tradition of Hellenistic Poetry

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1987
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Virgil's Aeneid
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 268

Virgil's Aeneid

The volumes published in the series "Beiträge zur Altertumskunde" comprise monographs, collective volumes, editions, translations and commentaries on various topics from the fields of Greek and Latin Philology, Ancient History, Archeology, Ancient Philosophy as well as Classical Reception Studies. The series thus offers indispensable research tools for a wide range of disciplines related to Ancient Studies.

A Companion to the Study of Virgil
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 342

A Companion to the Study of Virgil

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2000-08-18
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  • Publisher: BRILL

This book is not yet another introduction to Virgil’s poetry. The editor and three contributors offer a guide to the key problems and to the most intelligent discussions. They do not hesitate to point out what we do not know, and where more work needs to be done. Apart from ample discussion of the poems and the main issues they raise, the book offers chapters on the life of Virgil, his style, and his influence on late Latin epic.

Roman Literary Culture
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 362

Roman Literary Culture

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-07-18
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  • Publisher: JHU Press

This edition includes a new preface and an updated bibliography.

Journeys to Heaven and Hell
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 343

Journeys to Heaven and Hell

A New York Times best-selling scholar's illuminating exploration of the earliest Christian narrated journeys to heaven and hell “[An] illuminating deep dive . . . An edifying origin story for contemporary Christian conceptions of the afterlife.”—Publishers Weekly From classics such as the Odyssey and the Aeneid to fifth-century Christian apocrypha, narratives that described guided tours of the afterlife played a major role in shaping ancient notions of morality and ethics. In this new account, acclaimed author Bart Ehrman contextualizes early Christian narratives of heaven and hell within the broader intellectual and cultural worlds from which they emerged. He examines how fundamental ...

Parthenope, The Interplay of Ideas in Vergilian Bucolic
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 192

Parthenope, The Interplay of Ideas in Vergilian Bucolic

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-08-27
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  • Publisher: BRILL

The poet-herdsmen of Vergil's 'Eclogues' employ differing strategies for coping with acute loss, whether external or internal. The interplay of ideas latent in several of their songs is typically framed in terms of Epicurean concepts.