Virgil: Aeneid Book IX

By Virgil

Book Overview

Aeneid IX marks the beginning of the full-scale narrative of the war between the Trojans and Turnus' Italians which occupies the last quarter of the epic. Two days during which Turnus launches a siege-assault on the Trojan camp while Aeneas is absent are separated by the nocturnal interlude of the ill-fated expedition of the romantic young Trojans Nisus and Euryalus. In this, the first major single-volume commentary in English on the book, Dr Hardie explores Virgil's transformation of Homeric models of battle narrative in the service of contemporary Roman ideology. The volume includes a detailed linguistic and thematic commentary on the text, and an introduction consisting of a series of interpretative essays on the book.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052135952X
• ISBN13: 9780521359528
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.8" x 7.2"