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Eclogues
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Georgics
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Publius Vergilius Maro
reception of latin literature
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Roman literature
roman poet
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Vergil
Vergilius
Virgilian
Virgiliana
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- ISBN 9781405154987
- Weight: 3443g
- Dimensions: 137 x 274mm
- Publication Date: 29 Nov 2013
- Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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This is the first comprehensive English langage reference volume on Virgil, a poet whose works and thoughts have been at the center of Western literary, cultural, artistic, and pedagogical traditions for more than two millennia.
- Complements existing Virgil works by providing readers of all levels an approachable point of entry intry into further Virgil studies
- Offers in-depth treatment of all aspects of Virgil’s poetry, including the Greek and Roman literary traditions that inform his three great collections, the Eclogues, Georgics and Aeneid, and the reception of Virgil's oeuvre in literature, art, and music down through the ages
- Brings together over 350 contributors who are leading scholars in various periods of literary and cultural studies
- Comprises over 2,200 entries organized in A-Z format
Also available on Wiley Online Library. For sample content and information on online access, visit www.wileyonlinelibrary.com/ref/virgil.
Richard F. Thomas is George Martin Lane Professor of the Classics at Harvard University. His books include Lands and Peoples in Roman Poetry: The Ethnographical Tradition (1982), a two-volume commentary on Virgil’s Georgics (1988), Reading Virgil and his Texts (1999), Virgil and the Augustan Reception (2001), and a commentary on Horace, Odes 4 and Carmen Saeculare (2011).
Jan M. Ziolkowski is Director of Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Washington, DC, and Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Medieval Latin at Harvard University. His books include Nota Bene: Reading Classics and Writing Songs in the Early Middle Ages (2007); Fairy Tales from Before Fairy Tales: The Medieval Latin Past of Wonderful Lies (2007); The Virgilian Tradition: The First Fifteen Hundred Years, co-edited with Michael C. J. Putnam (2008); and Solomon and Marcolf (2008).
