Patterns of Redemption in Virgil's Georgics (häftad)
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Format
Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Serie
Cambridge Classical Studies
Antal sidor
266
Utgivningsdatum
1999-09-02
Förlag
Cambridge University Press
Dimensioner
216 x 137 x 23 mm
Vikt
409 g
ISBN
9780521651660

Patterns of Redemption in Virgil's Georgics

av Llewelyn Morgan, Llewelyn Morgan
Inbunden,  Engelska, 1999-09-02
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At the time of this book's first publication in 1999, orthodoxy interpreted the Georgics as a statement of profound ambivalence towards Octavian and his claim to be Rome's saviour after the catastrophe of the civil wars. This book takes issue with the model of the subtly subversive poet. It argues that in the turbulent political circumstances which obtained at the time of the poem's composition, Virgil's preoccupation with violent conflict has a highly optimistic import. Octavian's brutal conduct in the civil wars is subjected to a searching analysis, but is ultimately vindicated, refigured as a paradoxically constructive violence analogous to blood sacrifice or Romulus' fratricide of Remus. The vindication of Octavian also has strictly literary implications for Virgil. The close of the poem sees Virgil asserting his mastery of the Homeric mode of poetry and the providential world-view it was thought to embody.
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