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Virgil and the Augustan Reception

Virgil and the Augustan Reception

Thomas, Richard F.

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General ReferencePoetry CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 0521028957
ISBN13: 9780521028950
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Nov 2 2006
Pages: 348
Weight: 1.12
Height: 0.78 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This book examines the ideological reception of Virgil at specific moments in the past two millennia. It focuses on the emperor Augustus in the poetry of Virgil, detects in the poets and grammarians of antiquity pro- and anti-Augustan readings, studies Dryden's 1697 Royalist translation, and also naive American translation. It scrutinizes nineteenth-century philology's rewriting or excision of troubling readings, and covers readings by both supporters and opponents of fascism and National Socialism. Finally it examines how successive ages have made the Aeneid conform to their upbeat expectations of this poet.

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