Darkness visible : a study of Vergil's Aeneid
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Darkness visible : a study of Vergil's Aeneid
University of Chicago Press, 2015, c1976
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"Originally published by the University of California Press All rights reserved. Originally published 1976. University of Chicago Press edition 2015."--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
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One of the best books ever written on one of humanity's greatest epics, W. Ralph Johnson's study of Vergil's Aeneid challenges centuries of received wisdom. Johnson rejects the political and historical reading of the epic as a record of the glorious prehistory of Rome and instead foregrounds Vergil's enigmatic style and questioning of the myths. With an approach to the text that is both grounded in scholarship and intensely personal, and in a style both rhetorically elegant and passionate, Johnson offers readings of specific passages that are nuanced and suggestive as he focuses on the "somber and nourishing fictions" in Vergil's poem.
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