The Last Trojan Hero: A Cultural History of Virgil's Aeneid - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:I. B. Tauris & CompanyISBN-13:9781784534837ISBN-10:1784534838UPC:9781784534837Book Category:Literary Collections, History, ArtBook Subcategory:European, Ancient, HistoryBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:9.20 x 6.10 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SC36YFMQFN
The Last Trojan Hero: A Cultural History of Virgil's Aeneid
"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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:I. B. Tauris & CompanyISBN-13:9781784534837ISBN-10:1784534838UPC:9781784534837Book Category:Literary Collections, History, ArtBook Subcategory:European, Ancient, HistoryBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:9.20 x 6.10 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SC36YFMQFN
Philip Hardie is a Senior Research Fellow at Trinity College Cambridge and Honorary Professor of Latin in the University of Cambridge. His many books include Virgil's Aeneid: Cosmos and Imperium, The Epic Successors of Virgil, Ovid's Poetics of Illusion, The Cambridge Companion to Ovid and, edited with S Gillespie, The Cambridge Companion to Lucretius.
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