W. Polleichtner, Emotional questions: Vergil, the emotions, and the transformation of epic poetry. An analysis of select scenes

Wolfgang Polleichtner, Emotional questions: Vergil, the emotions, and the transformation of epic poetry. An analysis of select scenes. Trier: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2009. 352 p.

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• ISBN 9783868211894.

Recension par Giampiero Scafoglio, Seconda Università di Napoli, dans Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2010.08.20

Présentation de l'éditeur:

This book brings together traditional approaches to the reception of the Homeric epic poems in Vergil's Aeneid, new advances in the field of Hellenistic poetry, as well as latest results from studies of emotions in antiquity. Using selected Vergilian passages that can be compared with a sufficient amount of relevant material from ancient poets and philosophers, this book attempts to reconstruct in greater detail what probably was Vergil's own understanding of what it meant to write epic poetry in his time.