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The Other Virgil: `Pessimistic' Readings of the Aeneid in Early Modern Culture - Classical Presences Kallendorf, Craig (Professor of English and Classics, Texas A&M University)
The Other Virgil: `Pessimistic' Readings of the Aeneid in Early Modern Culture - Classical Presences
Kallendorf, Craig (Professor of English and Classics, Texas A&M University)
The story of how the Aeneid has been approached by various postclassical authors - including Shakespeare and Milton - not as an endorsement of the ideals of their societies, but as a model for poems that probed and challenged dominant values, just as Virgil himself had done centuries before.
272 pages, 12 halftones
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | October 18, 2007 |
| ISBN13 | 9780199212361 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press |
| Pages | 272 |
| Dimensions | 148 × 216 × 20 mm · 494 g |
| Language | English |