Further Voices in Vergil's Aeneid Paperback / softback
by R. O. A. M. (Fellow and Tutor in Classics, Fellow and Tutor in Classics, Balliol College, Oxfo Lyne
Part of the Clarendon Paperbacks series
Paperback / softback
- Information
Description
The Aeneid can strike one as a relatively conventional epic.
It may seem an objective heroic tale of Rome's beginnings, unshocking in tone and substance, indeed (and more particularly) patriotic and inspiring.
Vergil designed it so that it might read in this way.
This is one `voice` that he wished us to hear. We may call it the epic voice. But there are `further voices`. Imagery and other stylistic devices are exploited to insinuate ramifying meanings and messages for those prepared to listen, and these may be disturbing, even shocking, as they add to, comment upon, question and occasionally subvert the implications of the epic voice.
This book examines and illustrates Vergil's method of intruding such further voices.
In doing so it illuminates with unusual clarity the manner and content of Vergil's communications; it is as if one is taken inside Vergil's workshop, indeed inside his mind.
Information
-
Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:262 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:12/11/1992
- Category:
- ISBN:9780198140924
Information
-
Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:262 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:12/11/1992
- Category:
- ISBN:9780198140924
