Virgil: A Life - Brossura

Levi, Peter

Brossura

ISBN 10: 184885904X ISBN 13: 9781848859043

Casa editrice: Tauris Parke Paperbacks, 2012

Riassunto

In this biography, the eminent classicist Peter Levi uses Virgil's poems, like the Eclogues, Georgics, his epic, The Aeneid, as well as historical and archeological evidence, to discard many of the myths surrounding Virgil's life. In doing so, he uncovers the life of a poet whose powerful imagination and ethereal ability helped shape the epic vision of modern man. Indeed, Virgil's densely written and beautifully complex verse dominated Augustan Rome, the period of unprecedented prosperity, peace, and expansion that inaugurated the Golden Age of Roman poetry. Virgil, in fact, was the one poet who most fully understood the Roman Empire's enduring legacy and through his poetry defined the idea of civilization for generations to come. Although contemporary critics and readers often overlook Virgil's genius, Levi demonstrates that to neglect Virgil is to truncate many of the literary foundations of our culture.

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'the lightness of touch Levi adds to his scholarship makes for a genial read' --Financial Times

Descrizione del libro

Peter Levi teases a remarkably vivid life from Virgil's poems, a life-long study of poetry and the few facts that have come down to us through Suetonius.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Tauris Parke Paperbacks
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 184885904X
• ISBN 13: 9781848859043
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 272