Description
Product ID: | 9780691211169 |
Product Form: | Hardback |
Country of Manufacture: | US |
Series: | Martin Classical Lectures |
Title: | Juno's Aeneid |
Subtitle: | A Battle for Heroic Identity |
Authors: | Author: Joseph Farrell |
Page Count: | 384 |
Subjects: | Literature: history and criticism, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Ancient history, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, Ethics & moral philosophy |
Description: | Select Guide Rating A major new interpretation of Vergil's epic poem as a struggle between two incompatible versions of the Homeric heroThis compelling book offers an entirely new way of understanding the Aeneid. Many scholars regard Vergil's poem as an attempt to combine Homer's Iliad and Odyssey into a single epic. Joseph Farrell challenges this view, revealing |
Imprint Name: | Princeton University Press |
Publisher Name: | Princeton University Press |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2021-06-29 |