Vergil’s Aeneid

Augustan Epic and Political Context

by Hans-Peter Stahl

Book cover: Vergil’s Aeneid

Extent: 324 pages

Publisher: The Classical Press of Wales

Subjects: Classical Studies, Literary Studies

Series: Roman World

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(December 2009)

ISBN: 9781905125333

6.1 x 9.17 inches

Price: $35.00

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PDF (Published)

(December 2009)

ISBN: 9781910589304

Price: $35.00

This title features a collection of 14 papers in which contributors use diverging critical methods on a selection of extracts from Vergil’s epic, with the examination of political references in the work being prominent, as well as the question of the Aeneid’s central meaning. Contents include: Vergil announcing the Aeneid. On Geo. 3.1-48 (Egil Kraggerud); The Peopling of the Underworld (Anton Powell); Vergil as a Republican (Eckard Lefevre); The Sword-Belt of Pallas: Moral Symbolism and Political Ideology (Stephen Harrison); The Isolation of Turnus (Richard F. Thomas) and The End and the Meaning (David West)

  • By (author) Hans-Peter Stahl