[PDF.66qq] Last Trojan Hero, The: A Cultural History of Virgil's Aeneid

Last Trojan Hero, The: A Cultural History of Virgil's Aeneid

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||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| EVEN MORE INFLUENTIAL THAN HOMER'S ILIAD|By Critical Mass|The familar opening line of Virgil's AENEID: "I sing of arms and of a man..." resonates through the centuries as much, if not more so, than Homer's "The Wrath of Achilles..." which raises the curtain on his ILIAD. The story of the noble Aeneas, arguably the most successful of the Trojan survivors in the aftermath of the| |'In his new book Philip Hardie not only tells the story of Virgil's Aeneid, but also of a significant part of western culture. As one would expect from this author, it is a masterful selection and presentation of the rich material at his command. Pursuing the

“I sing of arms and of a man: his fate had made him fugitive: he was the first to journey from the coasts of Troy as far as Italy and the Lavinian shores.” The resonant opening lines of Virgil’s Aeneid rank among the most famous and consistently recited verses to have been passed down to later ages by antiquity. And after the Odyssey and the Iliad, Virgil’s masterpiece is arguably the greatest classical text in the whole of Western literature. Thi...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Last Trojan Hero, The: A Cultural History of Virgil's Aeneid   |  Philip Hardie. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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