Virgil |
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Author:
| Slavitt, David R. |
Series title: | Hermes Bks. |
ISBN: | 978-0-300-05102-5 |
Publication Date: | Dec 1991 |
Publisher: | Yale University Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $25.00 |
Book Description:
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Slavitt puts Virgil's poems in their biographical and historical context and provides analyses of the Eclogues, the Georgics, and the Aeneid. He also looks at Virgil's continuing popularity and at the legends that grew up about him in the Middle Ages as a magician or necromancer.
Slavitt puts Virgil's poems in their biographical and historical context and provides analyses of the Eclogues, the Georgics, and the Aeneid. He also looks at Virgil's continuing popularity and at the legends that grew up about him in the Middle Ages as a magician or necromancer.