J. Morwood, Virgil, A Poet in Augustan Rome.

James Morwood, Virgil, A Poet in Augustan Rome Cambridge/New York, Cambridge University Press, collection Greece and Rome: Texts and Contexts, 2007. v, 161 pages.  

• ISBN 9780521689441
  
• $26.00 (pb)  

Recension par Lee Fratantuono (Ohio Wesleyan University) dans Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2009.01.10.

Réponse à la recension de L. Fratantuono par Eric Dugdale (Gustavus Adolphus College) dans Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2009.01.23.

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Présentation de l'éditeur:

A series of texts in Classical Civilisation, encompassing literary, historical and philosophical subjects. Virgil is to Latin literature what Homer is to Greek and Shakespeare to English. He is both the supreme poet of Rome's greatness and its most profound exponent of the suffering involved in human experience. This book enables students to explore the issues at the heart of his work. It is built around substantial excerpts from his three great poems: the Eclogues, his highly original pastoral collection; the Georgics, his work about farming described by Dryden as ‘the best Poem of the best poet'; and the Aeneid, the supreme Roman epic.

Sommaire: Preface

Introduction

1. Eclogues

2. Georgics

3. The Trojans come to Cathage

4. The fall of Troy

5. Dido and Aeneas

6. Aeneas goes down to the underworld

7. The Trojans in Italy

8. Aeneas and Turnus

Recommended reading.