The epic successors of Virgil : a study in the dynamics of a tradition /
This short book is a study of the epic tradition of the early Roman empire and specifically of the epic poems of Ovid, Lucan, Statius, Valerius Flaccus and Silius Italicus. It explores the use they made of Virgil's Aeneid, an epic interpreted not just as a monument to the heroic construction of...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
1993.
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| Series: | Roman literature and its contexts.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
