Virgil

by Jasper Griffin

Book Overview

Virgil lived through the fall of the Roman Republic and the establishment of the Empire, and in his poems we see a series of attempts, increasingly ambitious in scale and conception, to combine technical brilliance with profound meditations on the nature of imperialism and the relation of the individual and the State. From short pastoral poems he progressed to the heroic myth of the founding of Rome, the Aeneid, recognized as the greatest masterpiece...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192876554
• ISBN13: 9780192876553
• Release Date: December 1986
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 112 Pages