Sibylline Sisters: Virgil's Presence in Contemporary Women's Writing

by Fiona Cox

The history of Virgil and his receptions is long and varied. His twentieth-century career transformed his appearance as an anaemic imitator of Homer into the 'Father of the West', speaking above all for the marginalized and exiled. At the turn of the millennium it is women writers who, having been largely absent from the story of Virgil's reception, are for the first time shaping a new aetas Vergiliana by drawing on his poems to speak of their own...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199582963
• ISBN13: 9780199582969
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.6"