Rumour and Renown (Inbunden)
avPhilip Hardie
ISBN: 9780521620888 - UTGIVEN: 2012-02The Latin word fama means 'rumour', 'report', 'tradition', as well as modern English 'fame' or 'renown'. This magisterial and groundbreaking study in the literary and cultural history of rumour and renown, by one of the most influential living critics of Latin poetry, examines the intricate dynamics[...]
Lucretian Receptions (Inbunden)
avPhilip Hardie
ISBN: 9780521760416 - UTGIVEN: 2009-11Lucretius' De Rerum Natura, one of the greatest Latin poems, worked a powerful fascination on Virgil and Horace, and continued to be an important model for later poets in antiquity and after, including Milton. This innovative set of studies on the reception of Lucretius is organized round three majo[...]
Homeric Effects in Vergil's Narrative (Inbunden)
avAlessandro Barchiesi, Philip Hardie
ISBN: 9780691161815 - UTGIVEN: 2015-01The study of Homeric imitations in Vergil has one of the longest traditions in Western culture, starting from the very moment the "Aeneid" was circulated. "Homeric Effects in Vergil's Narrative" is the first English translation of one of the most important and influential modern studies in this trad[...]
The Last Trojan Hero (Inbunden)
avPhilip Hardie
ISBN: 9781780762470 - UTGIVEN: 2014-03The 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 sin[...]
