The Georgics - Couverture souple

Virgil

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1406575437 ISBN 13 : 9781406575439

Editeur : Dodo Press, 2008

Synopsis

Publius Vergilius Maro (70 BCE-19 BCE), later called Virgilius, and known in English as Virgil or Vergil, was a classical Roman poet. He was the author of epics in three modes: the Bucolics or (The Eclogues) (37 BC), the Georgics (29 BC) and the substantially completed Aeneid (19 BC), the last being an epic poem in the heroic mode, which comprised twelve books and became the Roman Empire's national epic. Biographical reconstruction supposes that Virgil was part of the circle of Maecenas, Octavian's capable agent d'affaires who sought to counter sympathy for Mark Antony among the leading families by rallying Roman literary figures to Octavian's side. It also appears that Virgil gained many connections with other leading literary figures of the time, including Horace and Varius Rufus. As the Roman Empire collapsed, literate men acknowledged that the Christianized Virgil was a master poet. The Aeneid remained the central Latin literary text of the Middle Ages. It also held religious importance as it describes the founding of the Holy City. Surviving medieval collections of manuscripts containing Virgil's works include the Vergilius Augusteus, the Vergilius Vaticanus and the Vergilius Romanus.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This volume and its companion volume devoted to the second half of the poem provide a detailed commentary, with text, on the whole of Virgil's Georgics. Professor Thomas describes this work as 'perhaps the most difficult, certainly the most controversial, poem in Roman literature'. He presents the Georgics as the finished poem of Virgil's mature years, approaching it not merely as a part of the tradition of didactic poetry, but rather as a work which confronts, behind its generic appearance, issues not essentially different from those which inform the Eclogues and Aeneid. His introduction and Commentary argue that Virgil's agricultural world, with its successes, failures and ultimate limitations, represents the arena for man's struggle with the realities of existence. Professor Thomas pays particular attention to Virgil's allusion to and reshaping of prior Greek and Latin poetry. The Introduction also covers stylistic, metrical and structural questions. A subject index and indexes of important Greek and Latin words conclude each volume. This edition is aimed primarily at students at university and in the upper forms of schools, but the range of its scholarship means that it will be valuable to all classical scholars. The Introduction contains material for non-classicists interested in Latin literature.

Biographie de l'auteur

Eminent Roman poet, Virgil is famous for his incomparable epic Aeneid which has greatly influenced literature through the ages. Son of an affluent landowner, Virgil was sent to Milan, Rome and Naples to study rhetoric, mathematics, and medicine. He became one of the ''Alexandrians" - a group of poets influenced by Greek bards of the 3rd century. His early works include the poetic collection Bucolica (37 B. C.; 10 books), and the informative Georgics (29 B. C.; 4 books). After the Battle of Actium in 31 B. C. Virgil was assigned by the victorious emperor Augustus to write about his rule. This resulted in his magnum opus Aeneid on which he worked from 30 to 19 B. C. Spread over 12 books; it vividly captures the splendour of the Roman Empire and made Virgil a legend.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Dodo Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1406575437
• ISBN 13: 9781406575439
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 72
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible