{"product_id":"the-ancient-lives-of-virgil-literary-and-historical-studies-hardback-9781910589618","title":"The Ancient Lives of Virgil; Literary and Historical Studies (Hardback) 9781910589618","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Ancient Lives of Virgil\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eLiterary and Historical Studies\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAnton Powell (Edited by), Philip Hardie (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781910589618\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 21 December 2017\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e210 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.4 x 15.6 x 1.6 cm, 0.543 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eAncient Lives\u003c\/i\u003e of the poet Virgil, written in prose or verse, are of great, though controversial, influence. They have often been scorned by modern critics, for trying to construct biography of the poet from allegorical reading of his poems. Yet some elements of the Lives are trusted, and quietly adopted as canonical, such as the dating of Virgil's birth and death. Some vignettes in the Lives have been cherished for their image of an emotive poet (see jacket illustration). Less romantic detail in the Lives, as of Virgil's privileged material circumstances at the heart of the Augustan regime, has been less regarded. The present volume, from a distinguished international team, aims to revalue the Ancient Lives of Virgil in a variety of scholarly genres.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAllegory in the \u003ci\u003eLives\u003c\/i\u003e is here studied for its own sake, as part of a developed Graeco- Roman school of interpretation. The literary character of the verse Life attributed to Phocas is respectfully analysed. Certain political references within the best-known prose \u003ci\u003eLife\u003c\/i\u003e, the `Suetonian-Donatan', are shown to be apparently independent of allegory, and to be worth examining for new information on the poet's personal history. And ideas about Virgil received and developed with brio in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance are here traced back to the \u003ci\u003eLives\u003c\/i\u003e of the poet composed in Antiquity.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"The Classical Press of Wales","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52637931307288,"sku":"9781910589618","price":58.45,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-ancient-lives-of-virgil-literary-and-historical-studies-hardback-9781910589618","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}