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.
Présentation de l'éditeur:
A series of texts inClassical Civilisation, encompassing literary, historical andphilosophical subjects.Virgil is to Latin literature what Homer is to Greek and Shakespeare toEnglish. He is both the supreme poet of Rome's greatness and its mostprofound exponent of the suffering involved in human experience. Thisbook enables students to explore the issues at the heart of his work.It is built around substantial excerpts from his three great poems: theEclogues, his highly original pastoral collection; the Georgics, hiswork about farming described by Dryden as ‘the best Poem of the bestpoet'; 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. Didoand Aeneas
6. Aeneas goes down to the underworld
7. The Trojans inItaly
8. Aeneas and Turnus
Recommended reading.