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The Last Trojan Hero: A Cultural History of Virgil's Aeneid

Philip Hardie

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Description:OC 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.OCO The resonant opening lines of VirgilOCOs 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, VirgilOCOs 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 T S Eliot VirgilOCOs poem was OCythe classic of all EuropeOCO. The poetOCOs stirring tale of a refugee Trojan prince, OCytorn from Libyan wavesOCO 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."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Last Trojan Hero: A Cultural History of Virgil's Aeneid. To get started finding The Last Trojan Hero: A Cultural History of Virgil's Aeneid, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 192

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company

Release: 2014

ISBN: 0857735063

Description: OC 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.OCO The resonant opening lines of VirgilOCOs 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, VirgilOCOs 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 T S Eliot VirgilOCOs poem was OCythe classic of all EuropeOCO. The poetOCOs stirring tale of a refugee Trojan prince, OCytorn from Libyan wavesOCO 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."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Last Trojan Hero: A Cultural History of Virgil's Aeneid. To get started finding The Last Trojan Hero: A Cultural History of Virgil's Aeneid, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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