| Death Rebirth Virgils AR Contributor(s): Lee, M. Owen (Author) |
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ISBN: 0791400174 ISBN-13: 9780791400173 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $30.35 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 1989 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Ancient & Classical - Biography & Autobiography | Political |
| Dewey: 871.01 |
| LCCN: 88024824 |
| Series: Suny Series in Classical Studies |
| Physical Information: (0.46 lbs) 140 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Death and Rebirth in Virgil's Arcadia is an introduction to the Eclogues, based on sound scholarship but also personally felt and addressed to a popular audience. It outlines clearly the literary and historical background of Virgil's early poems, discusses each eclogue in some detail, and offers a new and challenging interpretation of the collection as a whole. The ten eclogues are shown to be a young poet's attempt at self-understanding. Their symmetrical arrangement is a journey inward toward the central experience of death, and a journey back toward rebirth and the writing of larger and greater works. |