Virgil: A Study in Civilized Poetry, Vol. 20

In this classic study, Brooks Otis presents Virgil as a radically different poet from any of his Greek or Roman predecessors. Virgil molded the ancient epic tradition to his own Roman contemporary aims and succeeded in making mythical and legendary figures meaningful to a sophisticated, unmythical age. Otis begins and ends his study with the Aeneid and includes chapters on the Bucolics and the Georgics. A new foreword by Ward W. Briggs, Jr., places Otis’s groundbreaking achievement in the context of past and present Virgilian scholarship.

In this classic study, Brooks Otis presents Virgil as a radically different poet from any of his Greek or Roman predecessors. Virgil molded the ancient epic tradition to his own Roman contemporary aims and succeeded in making mythical and legendary figures meaningful to a sophisticated, unmythical age. Otis begins and ends his study with the Aeneid and includes chapters on the Bucolics and the Georgics. A new foreword by Ward W. Briggs, Jr., places Otis's groundbreaking achievement in the context of past and present Virgilian scholarship.

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Explores the experience and the larger meaning of the wave of sightings of the Virgin Mary in Spain in the 1930s, which began shortly after Spain became a republic and anticlerical mobs burned religious houses. Describes the seers of the visions and their followers among all classes, and looks at the political and social significance of the visionaries' opposition to the Republic, drawing on interviews, diaries, newspaper reports, and clandestine publications. Includes b&w photos and a chronology. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Brooks Otis was Professor of Classics at Stanford University (later Professor of Latin at the University of North Carolina) and the author of Ovid As an Epic Poet and Cosmos and Tragedy.