Reading Vergil's Aeneid by Christine G Perkell
Vergil's Aeneid has been considered a classic, if not the classic, of Western literature for two thousand years. In recent decades this famous poem has become the subject of fresh and searching controversy. What is the poem's fundamental meaning? Does it endorse or undermine values of empire and patriarchy? Is its world view comic or tragic? Many studies of the poem have focused primarily on selected books. The approach here is comprehensive.An introduction by editor Christine Perkell discusses the poem's historical background, its reception from antiquity to the present, and its most important themes. The book-by-book readings that follow both explicate the text and offer a variety of interpretations.
Christine Perkell is Associate Professor of Classics at Emory University. She is the author of The Poet's Truth: A study of the Poet in Virgil's “Georgics.”
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| ISBN 13 | 9780806131399 |
| ISBN 10 | 080613139X |
| Title | Reading Vergil's Aeneid |
| Author | Christine Perkell |
| Series | Oklahoma Series In Classical Culture |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of Oklahoma Press |
| Year published | 2017-02-10 |
| Number of pages | 353 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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