Divine Purpose and Heroic Response in Homer and Virgil

By John E. Alvis

Book Overview

This work adopts a critical perspective to demonstrate in this study of the Illiad, the Odyssey and the Aeneid that each presents a distinct political teaching regarding human ends and forms of civil society most conducive to the realisation of those ends.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0847680150
• ISBN13: 9780847680153
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 269 Pages