
The Poetry of Pathos
Studies in Virgilian Epic
Gian Biagio Conte(Author)
S. J. Harrison(Editor)
Oxford University Press
Published on 24. May 2007
Book
Hardback
258 pages
978-0-19-928701-7 (ISBN)
Description
This volume presents a collection of pieces from a celebrated world-class scholar and interpreter of Latin poetry, focusing on the interpretation of Virgil's Aeneid.. It forms the sequel to two widely influential earlier books on Virgil by the same author and translates and adds to a collection of papers published in Italian in 2002. Its central concern is the way in which Virgil reworks earlier poetry (especially that of Homer) at the most detailed level to produce very broad literary and emotional effects. Gian Biaggio Conte explores a central issue in Virgilian studies, that of how the Aeneid manages to create a new and effective mode of epic in a period when the genre appears to be debased or exhausted.
Reviews / Votes
...readers will welcome this collection of papers in Virgilian epic by an Italian scholar who has greatly influenced English-language Latin literary studies. * J. D. Reed, The Classical Review * Splendidly proofread and beautifully produced...one of the most welcome new Virgil titles of the year. Essential. * L. M. Fratantuono, Choice * ...a very important book which adds much to our understanding of Virgil. * Bryn Mawr Review * ...outstanding...compelling... * TLS, 15/02/08 *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
502 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-928701-7 (9780199287017)
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Persons
Gian Biagio Conte is Professor of Latin Literature at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa.
S. J. Harrison is Fellow and Tutor in Classics, Corpus Christi College, and Professor of Classical Languages and Literature at the University of Oxford.
S. J. Harrison is Fellow and Tutor in Classics, Corpus Christi College, and Professor of Classical Languages and Literature at the University of Oxford.
Author
Professor of Latin Literature, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
Editor
Fellow and Tutor in Classics, Corpus Christi College, and Professor of Classical Languages and Literature, University of Oxford
Content
1. Introduction ; 2. The Virgilian Paradox: An Epic of Drama and Pathos ; 3. Anatomy of a Style: Enallage and the New Sublime ; 4. Aristaeus, Orpheus, and the Georgics Again ; 5. The Strategy of Contradiction: On the Dramatic Form of the Aeneid ; 6. Defensor Vergili: Richard Heinze on Virgil's Epic Technique ; 7. Towards a New Exegesis of Virgil: Reconsiderations and Proposals ; 8. The Meeting of Stylistics and Textual Criticism ; 9. Proems in the Middle