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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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.
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VIRGIL died at the seaport of Brundisium on 21 September 19 B.C. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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concilium deorum, poetae novi, dira cupido, divine machinery, subjective style, quam multa, theios aner, whole epic, new poets, historical epic, divine man Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Iliadic Aeneid, Odyssean Aeneid, Eclogue Book, Ars Poetica, Arcadian Rome, Augustan Rome, Farmer's Year, Furius Bibaculus, Punic War, Classical Greeks, Furius of Antium, Magnis Dis, Medea Jason, Richard Heinze, Warde Fowler New!
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- The "Eclogues" and "Georgics" (Oxford World's Classics) by Virgil on 6 pages
- Iliad and Odyssey by Homer on page 2, page 9, and page 222
- Works and Days (Oxford University Press academic monograph reprints) by Hesiod on page 146, and page 155
- Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 99 by Charles Segal in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Bellum Gallicum on page 24
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- Rhetoric of Imitation: Genre and Poetic Memory in Virgil and Other Latin Poets (Cornell Studies in Classical Philology) by Gian Biagio Conte on page 132, page 156, and page 168
- Pastoral and the Poetics of Self-Contradiction: Theocritus to Marvell by Judith Haber in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Virgil: Aeneid VII & VIII (Bristol Latin Texts Series) (Bks.7-8) by C.J. Fordyce in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Spenser And Ovid by Syrithe Pugh on page 116, and Back Matter
- The Cambridge Companion to Peirce (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy) by Cheryl Misak on page 37, and page 129
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