The other Virgil : "pessimistic" readings of the "Aeneid" in early modern culture
The story of how the Aeneid has been approached by various postclassical authors - including Shakespeare and Milton - not as an endorsement of the ideals of their societies, but as a model for poems that probed and challenged dominant values, just as Virgil himself had done centuries before.
Online-Publikation
XIII, 252 Seiten : Illustrationen
9780199212361, 0199212368
239440427
Introduction ; 1. Marginalization ; 2. Colonization ; 3. Revolution ; Conclusion