Virgil: Aeneid Book XI Hardback
by Virgil
Edited by K. W. Gransden
Part of the Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics series
Hardback
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Book XI of the Aeneid covers four crucial days in Aeneas' struggle against the Latins.
In it, Virgil gives us the funeral of Pallas, the great Latin war-council, Turnus' plan to ambush Aeneas and the aristeia and death of Camilla K.
W. Gransden sees the second half of the Roman national epic as 'Virgil's Iliad'.
In his introduction and commentary, he relates the themes and structure of Book XI not only to the rest of the Aeneid but also to relevant passages in the Iliad.
Gransden shows how, despite his adoption of the epic form, Virgil's style is influenced by Alexandrian miniaturism, Callimachean theory, and the poetry of the neoteroi.
In addition to questions of style and interpretation raised in the commentary, there are sections in the introduction covering the Virgilian hexameter and narrative technique.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:160 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:14/11/1991
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- ISBN:9780521260404
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Out of Stock - We are unable to provide an estimated availability date for this product
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:160 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:14/11/1991
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- ISBN:9780521260404
