The Last Trojan Hero: A Cultural History of Virgil's Aeneid

The Last Trojan Hero: A Cultural History of Virgil's Aeneid

â€œI sing of arms and of a man: his fate had made him fugitive: he was the first to journey from the coasts of Troy as far as Italy and the Lavinian shores.â€ The resonant opening lines of Virgilâ€™s Aeneid rank among the most famous and consistently recited verses to have been passed down to later ages by antiquity. And after the Odyssey and the Iliad, Virgilâ€™s masterpiece is arguably the greatest classical text in the whole of Western literature. This sinuous and richly characterised epic vitally influenced the poetry of Dante, Petrarch and Milton. The doomed love of Dido and Aeneas inspired Purcell, while for T S Eliot Virgilâ€™s poem was â€˜the classic of all Europeâ€™. The poetâ€™s stirring tale of a refugee Trojan prince, â€˜torn from Libyan wavesâ€™ to found a new homeland in Italy, has provided much fertile material for writings on colonialism and for discourses of ethnic and national identity. The Aeneid has even been viewed as a template and a source of philosophical justification for British and American imperialism and adventurism. In his major new book Philip Hardie explores the many remarkable afterlivesâ€•ancient, medieval and modernâ€•of the Aeneid in literature, music, politics, the visual arts and film.
Country USA
Brand Bloomsbury
Manufacturer I.B. Tauris
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 24 bw integrated, 15 colour in 8pp plate
ReleaseDate 2016-01-30
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781784534837

Country	USA
Brand	Bloomsbury
Manufacturer	I.B. Tauris
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	24 bw integrated, 15 colour in 8pp plate
ReleaseDate	2016-01-30
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781784534837

The Last Trojan Hero: A Cultural History of Virgil's Aeneid

You might also like...