Hardie Philip (University Of Oxford Uk)
Hardie Philip (University Of Oxford Uk) - The Last Trojan Hero A Cultural History Of Virgil's Aeneid - Paperback
Hardie Philip (University Of Oxford Uk) - The Last Trojan Hero A Cultural History Of Virgil's Aeneid - Paperback
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Description: " I 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." The resonant opening lines of Virgil'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 Virgil'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 Ts Eliot Virgil's poem was 'the classic of all Europe'. The poet's stirring tale of a refugee Trojan prince 'torn from Libyan waves 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 afterlives - ancient medieval and modern - of the Aeneid in literature music politics the visual arts and film.
Title: The Last Trojan Hero A Cultural History Of Virgil's Aeneid
Author(s): Hardie Philip (University Of Oxford Uk)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Barcode: 9781784534837
Pages: 262 Pages, 24 Bw Integrated, 15 Colour In 8pp Plates
Publication Date: 1/30/2016
Category: History Of Ideas
Description: " I 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." The resonant opening lines of Virgil'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 Virgil'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 Ts Eliot Virgil's poem was 'the classic of all Europe'. The poet's stirring tale of a refugee Trojan prince 'torn from Libyan waves 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 afterlives - ancient medieval and modern - of the Aeneid in literature music politics the visual arts and film.
Title: The Last Trojan Hero A Cultural History Of Virgil's Aeneid
Author(s): Hardie Philip (University Of Oxford Uk)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Barcode: 9781784534837
Pages: 262 Pages, 24 Bw Integrated, 15 Colour In 8pp Plates
Publication Date: 1/30/2016
Category: History Of Ideas
