Virgil Recomposed The Mythological and Secular Centos in Antiquity

Name: Virgil Recomposed The Mythological and Secular Centos in Antiquity
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ISBN: 9780195175646

ISBN-10: 0195175646

ISBN-13: 9780195175646

Edition: 2005

Authors: Scott McGill

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The Virgilian centos anticipate the avant-garde and smash the image of a staid, sober, and centered classical world. This book examines the twelve mythological and secular Virgilian centos that survive from antiquity. The centos, in which authors take non-consecutive lines or segments of lines from the Eclogues, Georgics, and Aeneid and reconnect them to produce new poems, have received limited attention. No other book-length study exists of all the centos, which date from ca. 200 to ca. 530. The centos are literary games, and they have a playful shock value that feels very modern. Yet the texts also demand to be taken seriously for what they disclose about late antique literary culture,…

Book details

List price: $210.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/28/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 260
Size: 9.41" wide x 6.30" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English

Scott McGill is Associate Professor in the Classical Studies Department, Rice University. He is the author of Virgil Recomposed: The Mythological and Secular Centos in Antiquity (2005) and is currently writing Plagiarism in Classical Latin Literature, exploring the concept of plagiarism in Latin antiquity.




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