The poetry of pathos : studies in Virgilian epic /
A collection of essays on Virgil's 'Aeneid' by a celebrated scholar and interpreter of Latin poetry. Gian Biaggio Conte focuses on the way in which Virgil reworks earlier poetry (especially that of Homer) to create a new and effective mode of epic in a period when the genre appeared t...
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Oxford ; New York :
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2007.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / by Stephen Harrison
- The Virgilian paradox : an epic of drama and pathos
- Anatomy of a style : enallage and the new sublime
- Aristaeus, Orpheus, and the Georgics : once again
- The strategy of contradiction : on the dramatic form of the Aeneid
- Defensor Vergilii : Richard Heinze on Virgil's epic technique
- Towards a new exegesis of Virgil : reconsiderations and proposals
- The meeting of stylistics and textual criticism
- Proems in the middle.