Virgil

Introduces Virgil's three major works and a surveys the changing critical approaches to them.

Philip Hardie (Author)

9780199223428, Oxford University Press

Paperback, published 2 July 1998

136 pages
23.5 x 15.6 x 0.9 cm, 0.209 kg

'Successfully communicates a sense of why reading Virgil matters and how the study of this author is always open to new ideas and fresh insights.' Journal of Roman Studies

In this volume Philip Hardie provides an introduction to Virgil's three major works, a survey of changing critical approaches to the poems during the twentieth century, and a bibliographical guide for further study. A final section on style, language and metre offers a case-study in a close reading of a section of the Aeneid. The book communicates a sense of why reading Virgil matters and how the study of this author is always open to new ideas and fresh insights. No knowledge of Latin is presumed.

1. Introduction
2. The Eclogues
3. The Georgies
4. The Aeneid
5. Style, Language, Metre
Bibliographical Note
Select Bibliography
About the Author
Index
Index of Chief Passages Discussed.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval [DSBB]