Epic Successors of Virgil A Study in the Dynamics of a Tradition

Name: Epic Successors of Virgil A Study in the Dynamics of a Tradition
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ISBN: 9780521425629

ISBN-10: 052142562X

ISBN-13: 9780521425629

Edition: 1993

Authors: Philip Hardie, Denis Feeney, Stephen Hinds

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This short book is a study of the epic tradition of the early Roman empire and specifically of the epic poems of Ovid, Lucan, Statius, Valerius Flaccus and Silius Italicus. It explores the use they made of Virgils Aeneid, an epic interpreted not just as a monument to the heroic construction of the principate, but also as a problematical text that challenged succeeding epic poets to a reworking of the issues that it dramatised: the possibility of establishing a lasting age of peace, the relation between power and the sacred, the difficulties of distinguishing between good and its evil parodies, anxiety about imperial and poetic succession. The author draws on modern critical and theoretical…

Book details

List price: $34.99
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 12/17/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 144
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English

Denis Feeneyis Giger Professor of Latin at Princeton University and was the 2004 Sather Lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley. His books includeLiterature and Religion at Rome: Cultures, Contexts, and Beliefs(1998) andThe Gods in Epic: Poets and Critics of the Classical Tradition(1991).




Closure and continution



Sacrifice and substitution



Heaven and hell



Succession: fathers, poets, princes


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