Aineias the Tactician: How to Survive Under Siege

by Aineias Tacticus and David Whitehead

Virgil lived through the fall of the Roman Republic and the establishment of the Empire. In his poems we see a series of attempts, increasingly ambitious in scale and conception, to combine technical brilliance and beauty with profound meditation on the nature of imperialism and the relation of the individual to the State. From short pastoral poems on love and song he progressed to the heroic myth of the founding of Rome. "The Aeneid", immediately...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1853996270
• ISBN13: 9781853996276
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.4"