Virgil and the Augustan Reception

By Richard F. Thomas and Richard Felstead Thomas

Book Overview

This book examines the ideological reception of Virgil at specific moments in the past two millennia. It focuses on the emperor Augustus in the poetry of Virgil, detects in the poets and grammarians of antiquity pro- and anti-Augustan readings, studies Dryden's 1697 Royalist translation, and also naive American translation. It scrutinizes nineteenth-century philology's rewriting or excision of troubling readings, and covers readings by both supporters and opponents of fascism and National Socialism. Finally it examines how successive ages have made the Aeneid conform to their upbeat expectations of this poet.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521782880
• ISBN13: 9780521782883
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 346 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.2"