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Virgil's Aeneid: A Reader's Guide
Virgil's Aeneid A Reader's Guide
Author: David Ross
Written by eminent scholar David O. Ross, this guide helps readers to engage with the poetry, thought, and background of Virgil?s great epic, suggesting both the depth and the beauty of Virgil?s poetic images and the mental images with which the Romans lived. —
  • Guides readers through the complexity of Virgil?s poetic style and imagery — ...  more »
  • Provides useful historical and social context in which to understand the poem as it was viewed in its time

  • Includes short introductions to important topics such as Roman religion and the Roman concept of ?character?

  • Features a helpful appendix which clarifies how to read and hear the poem's Latin hexameter
ISBN-13: 9781405159722
ISBN-10: 1405159723
Publication Date: 5/18/2007
Pages: 168
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Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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