Patterns of Redemption in Virgil's Georgics - Couverture rigide

Morgan, Llewelyn

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0521651662 ISBN 13 : 9780521651660

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1999

Synopsis

This 1999 study seeks to understand Virgil's Georgics in terms of the cultural and political upheavals in Rome.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

At the time of this book's first publication in 1999, orthodoxy interpreted the Georgics as a statement of profound ambivalence towards Octavian and his claim to be Rome's saviour after the catastrophe of the civil wars. This book takes issue with the model of the subtly subversive poet. It argues that in the turbulent political circumstances which obtained at the time of the poem's composition, Virgil's preoccupation with violent conflict has a highly optimistic import. Octavian's brutal conduct in the civil wars is subjected to a searching analysis, but is ultimately vindicated, refigured as a paradoxically constructive violence analogous to blood sacrifice or Romulus' fratricide of Remus. The vindication of Octavian also has strictly literary implications for Virgil. The close of the poem sees Virgil asserting his mastery of the Homeric mode of poetry and the providential world-view it was thought to embody.

Revue de presse

"This is clearly a learned book and I have learned a lot from reading it..." Robert Cramer, Universitaet Bonn, email

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521651662
• ISBN 13: 9780521651660
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 266
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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