Darkness Visible: A Study of Vergil's Aeneid

by W.R. Johnson

Book Overview

One of the best books ever written on one of humanity's greatest epics, W. R. Johnson's classic study of Vergil's Aeneid challenges centuries of received wisdom. Johnson rejects the political and historical reading of the epic as a record of the glorious prehistory of Rome and instead foregrounds Vergil's enigmatic style and questioning of the heroic myths.

With an approach to the text that is both grounded in scholarship and intensely...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022625223X
• ISBN13: 9780226252230
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.9"