Название: Epic and Empire: Politics and Generic Form from Virgil to Milton
Автор: David Quint
Издательство: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691069425
Год: 1993
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 448
Размер: 25,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

Alexander the Great, according to Plutarch, carried on his campaigns a copy of the Iliad, kept alongside a dagger; on a more pronounced ideological level, ancient Romans looked to the Aeneid as an argument for imperialism. In this major reinterpretation of epic poetry beginning with Virgil, David Quint explores the political context and meanings of key works in Western literature.