The Last Trojan Hero: A Cultural History of Virgil's Aeneid

I sing of arms and of a man: his fate had made him fugitive: he was the...
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Author: Philip Hardie
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The Last Trojan Hero: A Cultural History of Virgil's Aeneid by Hardie, Philip

The Last Trojan Hero: A Cultural History of Virgil's Aeneid

$107.40

The Last Trojan Hero: A Cultural History of Virgil's Aeneid

$107.40
Author: Philip Hardie
Format: Paperback
Language: English

I sing of arms and of a man: his fate had made him fugitive: he was the first to journey from the coasts of Troy as far as Italy and the Lavinian shores. The resonant opening lines of Virgil's Aeneid rank among the most famous and consistently recited verses to have been passed down to later ages by antiquity. And after the Odyssey and the Iliad, Virgil's masterpiece is arguably the greatest classical text in the whole of Western literature. This sinuous and richly characterised epic vitally influenced the poetry of Dante, Petrarch and Milton. The doomed love of Dido and Aeneas inspired Purcell, while for T S Eliot Virgil's poem was 'the classic of all Europe'. The poet's stirring tale of a refugee Trojan prince, 'torn from Libyan waves' to found a new homeland in Italy, has provided much fertile material for writings on colonialism and for discourses of ethnic and national identity. The Aeneid has even been viewed as a template and a source of philosophical justification for British and American imperialism and adventurism.
In his major new book Philip Hardie explores the many remarkable afterlives - ancient, medieval and modern - of the Aeneid in literature, music, politics, the visual arts and film.



Author: Philip Hardie
Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
Published: 01/30/2016
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781784534837

About the Author
Philip Hardie is a Senior Research Fellow at Trinity College Cambridge and Honorary Professor of Latin in the University of Cambridge. His many books include Virgil's Aeneid: Cosmos and Imperium, The Epic Successors of Virgil, Ovid's Poetics of Illusion, The Cambridge Companion to Ovid and, edited with S Gillespie, The Cambridge Companion to Lucretius.


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