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The Epic Successors of Virgil: A Study in the Dynamics of a Tradition

The Epic Successors of Virgil: A Study in the Dynamics of a Tradition

Hardie, Philip
Feeney, D. C.
Hinds, Stephen

Paperback

Series: Roman Literature and Its Contexts

Literary CriticismGeneral ReferencePoetry Criticism

ISBN10: 052142562X
ISBN13: 9780521425629
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Dec 17 1992
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.37 Width: 5.02 Depth: 7.71
Language: English
This book is a critically sophisticated introduction to the epic tradition of the early Roman empire, specifically the epic poems of Ovid, Lucan, Statius, Valerius Flaccus, and Silius Italicus. It explores the use that they all make of the great Augustan epic of Virgil, the Aeneid. Instead of being feeble imitations of the great classic (a common critical viewpoint), these poems are shown to be dynamic works that use the Virgilian model creatively to reflect the moral and political issues of their own day. All Latin is translated.

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