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Virgil's Aeneid : Cosmos and imperium / Philip R. Hardie.
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Hardie, Philip R.
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English
Published/Created
Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1986.
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x, 405 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
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Firestone Library - Classics Graduate Study: Reserve
PA6825 .H37 1986
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Epic poetry, Latin
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History and criticism
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Cosmology, Ancient, in literature
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Imperialism in literature
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Cosmology, Ancient
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Cosmology in literature
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Rome
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In literature
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Virgil
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Aeneis
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Summary note
This book explores Virgil's poetic and mythical transformation of Roman imperialist ideology. The Romans saw an analogy between the ordered workings of the natural universe and the proper functioning of their own expanding empire; between orbis and urbs. In combining this cosmic imperialism with the military and panegyrical themes proper to epic, Virgil draws on a number of traditions: the notion that the ideal poet is a cosmologer; the use of allegory to extract natural-philosophical truths from mythology and poetry (especially Homer); the poetic use of hyperbole and the 'universal expression'. Virgil's imagination is dominated by the cosmological poem of Lucretius; the "Aeneid", like the "De rerum natura", is a poem about the universe and how man should live in it, but Virgil's constant inversion of Lucretian values makes of him an anti-Lucretius. Recent criticism has tended to stress the pessimistic and private sides of the "Aeneid"; but any easy conclusion that the poet was at heart anti-Augustan is precluded by the depth and detail with which he develops the imperialist themes discussed in this book.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
Poetry and cosmology in antiquity
Cosmology and history in Virgil
Gigantomachy in the Aeneid: I
Gigantomachy in the Aeneid: II
Lucretius and the Aeneid
Hyperbole
Universal expressions in the Aeneid
The shield of Aeneas: the cosmic icon.
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ISBN
0198140363
9780198140368
0198146914 ((pbk.))
9780198146919 ((pbk.))
LCCN
85029800
OCLC
12978205
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