The Epic Successors of Virgil
A Study in the Dynamics of a Tradition
Series: Roman Literature and its Contexts;
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 17 December 1992
- ISBN 9780521425629
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages144 pages
- Size 199x129x17 mm
- Weight 178 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
A critically sophisticated introduction to the epic tradition of the early Roman empire.
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This short book is a study of the epic tradition of the early Roman empire and specifically of the epic poems of Ovid, Lucan, Statius, Valerius Flaccus and Silius Italicus. It explores the use they made of Virgil's Aeneid, an epic interpreted not just as a monument to the heroic construction of the principate, but also as a problematical text that challenged succeeding epic poets to a reworking of the issues that it dramatised: the possibility of establishing a lasting age of peace, the relation between power and the sacred, the difficulties of distinguishing between good and its evil parodies, anxiety about imperial and poetic succession. The author draws on modern critical and theoretical approaches to argue for the vitality and interest of works which have all too often been relegated to a second division of literary history.
MoreTable of Contents:
1. Closure and continution; 2. Sacrifice and substitution; 3. Heaven and hell; 4. Succession: fathers, poets, princes; Bibliography.
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