A01=Anton Powell
Ancient & Classical
Author_Anton Powell
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Classical Studies
Classics
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History of Literature
Literary Criticism
Virgil/History & Criticism
VirgilHistory & Criticism
Product details
- ISBN 9781905125548
- Weight: 507g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 04 Jul 1905
- Publisher: Classical Press of Wales
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Since its first appearance in 2008, this book has changed the landscape of Virgilian studies. Analysing closely the logic and the literary genres of Virgil's three poems, it politely confronts the modern orthodoxy that Virgil signalled distaste for the methods of his ruler, Octavian-Augustus. It refreshes the study of Virgil's poetry by comparing it with the detail (normally neglected by scholars) of Rome's civil wars after Julius Caesar's death, when Octavian's survival looked highly unlikely. And it argues that Virgil wrote as a passionate - and brave - partisan of Octavian, who - like a good lawyer - confronted his patron's undeniable failings in order to defend.
Anton Powell is Director of the University of Wales Institute of Classics. He is the author of Athens and Sparta (1988, 2001); as founder and (with Stephen Hodkinson) as director of the International Sparta Seminar he has edited five volumes of its proceedings. He is also (with Kathryn Welch) editor of Julius Caesar as Artful Reporter (1998) and of Sextus Pompeius (2002).
