Pietas from Vergil to Dryden

Name: Pietas from Vergil to Dryden
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ISBN: 9780271007878

ISBN-10: 0271007877

ISBN-13: 9780271007878

Edition: 1992

Authors: James Garrison

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For centuries the most revered poem in the Western literary canon, Vergil's Aeneid celebrates the Roman virtue of pietas. In the preface to his English translation of the poem, John Dryden attempts to explain all that this virtue includes: "Piety alone," he writes, "comprehends the whole Duty of Man towards the Gods, towards his Country, and towards his Relations." Dryden's definition belongs to a dialogue about meaning that reflects a history of contention over religious, political, and moral issues of enduring cultural significance. Because it is the site of antagonism between pagan and Christian, republican and imperialist, emperor and pope, Protestant and Catholic, pietas and its…

Book details

List price: $86.95
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Publication date: 3/2/1992
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 356
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.562
Language: English



Preface


Abbreviations


Introduction



Pietas



Auctores Pietatis: Classical and Christian Ideas of Pietas



History: Pietas and Roman Destiny



Governance: Royal and Ecclesiastical Pietas in the Middle Ages



Love: Dido and Pietas in the Early Renaissance



War: Turnus and Pietas in the Later Renaissance



Heredes Pietatis: Pietas and Piety in the Work of John Dryden


Conclusion


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index of Words and Phrases


General Index