The Other Virgil `Pessimistic' Readings of the Aeneid in Early Modern Culture |
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| Author:
| Kallendorf, Craig |
| Series title: | Classical Presences Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-152642-8 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2007 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | Contact Supplier contact
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Book Description:
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The story of how the Aeneid has been approached by various postclassical authors - including Shakespeare and Milton - not as an endorsement of the ideals of their societies, but as a model for poems that probed and challenged dominant values, just as Virgil himself had done centuries before.
The story of how the Aeneid has been approached by various postclassical authors - including Shakespeare and Milton - not as an endorsement of the ideals of their societies, but as a model for poems that probed and challenged dominant values, just as Virgil himself had done centuries before.