Literary Criticism - General & Miscellaneous, Politics & Literature, Cosmology, Imperialism, Ancient Roman Poetry - Literary Criticism, Mythology in Literature
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Overview
The Romans saw an analogy between the ordered workings of the natural universe and the proper functioning of their own expanding empire, between orbis and urbs. Philip Hardie's new work explores Virgil's poetic and mythic transformation of this imperialist ideology with reference to such traditions as the poet/cosmologer, the use of allegory to extract natural-philosophical truths from mythology and poetry, poetic hyperbole, and the "universal expression."
Book Details
Published
April 10, 1986
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Pages
400
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780198140368