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VIRGIL'S AUGUSTAN EPIC
by Cairns, Francis
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0521353580
- ISBN 13
- 9780521353588
- Seller
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Cambridge University Press. Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. 1989. Hardcover. 0521353580 . Minor shelfwear to book. DJ has some edgewear with chipping and small tears to spine ends and corners. Sticker damage to bottom corner of front wrap. R. E. Fantham's notes in pen and pencil to rear DJ flap. ; 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 ideology. The characters and the plot and incident of the epic are seen as embodying and exemplifying first the ancient ideals of kingship and concord, and second the Roman self-identification as at once 'Italian' and 'Trojan', and finally as reflecting the literary self-evaluation of the Augustan age. In the literary area, Virgil's relations with contemporary Roman elegy, with early Greek lyric and, most important, with Homer, are studied and reevaluated. Virgilian scholars and students of Augustan literature in general will find this book of interest to them. ; 296 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Ancient World Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12083
- Title
- VIRGIL'S AUGUSTAN EPIC
- Author
- Cairns, Francis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0521353580
- ISBN 13
- 9780521353588
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge
- Date Published
- 1989
- Keywords
- 0521353580, Epic Poetry, Aeneid, Vergil Virgil, Poetry & Poets, Latin Literature, Political Science
- Bookseller catalogs
- Political Science;
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- Jacket
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- Chipping
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- Shelfwear
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- Good+
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....