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Virgil and the Augustan Reception
Virgil and the Augustan Reception
Author: Richard F. Thomas
This book examines the ideological reception of Virgil at specific moments in the past two millennia. It focuses on the emperor Augustus in the poetry of Virgil, detects in the poets and grammarians of antiquity pro- and anti-Augustan readings, studies Dryden's 1697 Royalist translation, and also naive American translation. It scrutinizes ninete...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780521782883
ISBN-10: 0521782880
Publication Date: 3/26/2001
Pages: 344
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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