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Hardie, Philip

 
9780521425629: The Epic Successors of Virgil: A Study in the Dynamics of a Tradition
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ISBN 10 : 052142562X ISBN 13 : 9780521425629
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2010

Synopsis

This short book is a study of the epic tradition of the early Roman empire and specifically of the epic poems of Ovid, Lucan, Statius, Valerius Flaccus and Silius Italicus. It explores the use they made of Virgil's Aeneid, an epic interpreted not just as a monument to the heroic construction of the principate, but also as a problematical text that challenged succeeding epic poets to a reworking of the issues that it dramatised: the possibility of establishing a lasting age of peace, the relation between power and the sacred, the difficulties of distinguishing between good and its evil parodies, anxiety about imperial and poetic succession. The author draws on modern critical and theoretical approaches to argue for the vitality and interest of works which have all too often been relegated to a second division of literary history.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This short book is a study of the epic tradition of the early Roman empire and specifically of the epic poems of Ovid, Lucan, Statius, Valerius Flaccus and Silius Italicus. It explores the use they made of Virgil's Aeneid, an epic interpreted not just as a monument to the heroic construction of the principate, but also as a problematical text that challenged succeeding epic poets to a reworking of the issues that it dramatised: the possibility of establishing a lasting age of peace, the relation between power and the sacred, the difficulties of distinguishing between good and its evil parodies, anxiety about imperial and poetic succession. The author draws on modern critical and theoretical approaches to argue for the vitality and interest of works which have all too often been relegated to a second division of literary history.

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
052142562X
ISBN 13 
9780521425629
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
142
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ISBN 10 :  052141542X ISBN 13 :  9780521415422
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1992
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