Tag: Virgil

Free Download M. J. Clarke, B. G. F. Currie, R. O. A. M. Lyne, "Epic Interactions: Perspectives on Homer, Virgil, and the Epic Tradition Presented to Jasper Griffin by Former Pupils"
English | 2006 | pages: 456 | ISBN: 0199276307 | PDF | 1,7 mb
This collection of essays, written by former pupils, celebrates the career of Jasper Griffin, one of the foremost modern scholars of classical epic. The volume surveys the epic tradition from the eighth century BC to the nineteenth century of our era. Individual chapters focus on: Homer and the oral epic tradition; Homer in his religious context; Herodotus and Homer; Hellenistic epic; Virgil in his literary context; Virgil in his political-cultural context; the Augustan poets and the Aeneid; Statius’ Thebaid; Old English and Old Irish epic; Renaissance epic: Tasso and Milton; and the Victorians. The aim of the book is to situate writers of epic in their literary and cultural contexts-an enterprise captured in the term "interaction" in the title. The chapters singly offer insights into some of the foundational poems of the European epic tradition and together take a bold, holistic look at that tradition.

Free Download Virgil Gheorghiu on Communism, Capitalism and National Socialism
by Iuliu-Marius Morariu
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3631868790 | 262 Pages | True PDF | 1.73 MB

Free Download Virgil in Medieval England: Figuring The Aeneid from the Twelfth Century to Chaucer by Christopher Baswell
English | 1995 | ISBN: 0521462940 | 460 Pages | PDF | 12.4 MB
What happens when a prestigious text of one period is read and reused in a different, much later world?

Free Download Virgil’s Gaze: Nation and Poetry in the Aeneid by Joseph D. Reed
English | January 22, 2007 | ISBN: 0691127409, 0691170916 | True EPUB | 240 pages | 0.7 MB
Virgil’s Aeneid invites its reader to identify with the Roman nation whose origins and destiny it celebrates. But, as J. D. Reed argues in Virgil’s Gaze, the great Roman epic satisfies this identification only indirectly-if at all. In retelling the story of Aeneas’ foundational journey from Troy to Italy, Virgil defines Roman national identity only provisionally, through oppositions to other ethnic identities-especially Trojan, Carthaginian, Italian, and Greek-oppositions that shift with the shifting perspective of the narrative. Roman identity emerges as multivalent and constantly changing rather than unitary and stable. The Roman self that the poem gives us is capacious-adaptable to a universal nationality, potentially an imperial force-but empty at its heart. However, the incongruities that produce this emptiness are also what make the Aeneid endlessly readable, since they forestall a single perspective and a single notion of the Roman.

Free Download Ronald Knox’s Lectures on Virgil’s Aeneid: With Introduction and Critical Essays edited by Francesca Bugliani Knox
English | August 10, 2023 | ISBN: 1350118281 | True EPUB | 274 pages | 1.5 MB
This book makes available Ronald Knox’s hitherto unpublished lectures on Virgil’s Aeneid delivered at Trinity College, Oxford, as part of a lecture course on Virgil in 1912.

Free Download Virgil: Aeneid Book XII By Richard Tarrant
2012 | 374 Pages | ISBN: 052130881X | PDF | 11 MB
Book XII brings Virgil’s Aeneid to a close, as the long-delayed single combat between Aeneas and Turnus ends with Turnus’ death a finale that many readers find more unsettling than triumphant. In this, the first detailed single-volume commentary on the book in any language, Professor Tarrant explores Virgil’s complex portrayal of the opposing champions, his use and transformation of earlier poetry (Homer’s in particular) and his shaping of the narrative in its final phases. In addition to the linguistic and thematic commentary, the volume contains a substantial introduction that discusses the larger literary and historical issues raised by the poem’s conclusion; other sections include accounts of Virgil’s metre, later treatments of the book’s events in art and music, and the transmission of the text. The edition is designed for upper-level undergraduates and graduate students and will also be of interest to scholars of Latin literature.

Free Download Ian Calvert, "Virgil’s English Translators: Civil Wars to Restoration "
English | ISBN: 1474475647 | 2021 | 208 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book considers the writers who translated Virgil into English during the English civil wars, the Interregnum and the early years of the Stuart Restoration (c. 1636-c. 1661). It argues that these writers translated Virgil in order to display and interrogate their political loyalties, articulate personal responses to past traumas and express their hopes for the country’s future. All of Virgil’s English translators in this period were in some way associated with the royalist cause, but the political elements of their respective translations demonstrate that royalism itself was not a monolithic political standpoint and instead encompassed a wide variety of opinions regarding the policy of individual monarchs and the institution of monarchy.