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Virgil's Augustan Epic
Language: en
Pages: 296
Authors: Francis Cairns
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1989-03-16 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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An examination of the main characters in the Aeneid - Aeneas himself, Dido and Turnus - in the light of Virgil's contemporary Augustan political and literary id
Vergil's Aeneid
Language: en
Pages: 356
Authors: Hans-Peter Stahl
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-12-31 - Publisher: Classical Press of Wales

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This title features a collection of 14 papers in which contributors use diverging critical methods on a selection of extracts from Vergil's epic, with the exami
The Epic Successors of Virgil
Language: en
Pages: 148
Authors: Philip R. Hardie
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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A critically sophisticated introduction to the epic tradition of the early Roman empire.
Carthage in Virgil's Aeneid
Language: en
Pages: 349
Authors: Elena Giusti
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-03-29 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Investigates the representation of the Carthaginian enemy and the revisionist history of the Punic Wars in Virgil's Aeneid.
Virgil and the Augustan Reception
Language: en
Pages: 346
Authors: Richard F. Thomas
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-03-15 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This book is an examination of the ideological reception of Virgil at specific moments in the last two millennia. The author focuses on the emperor Augustus in