The Other Virgil

The Other Virgil
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 280
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Book Synopsis The Other Virgil by : Craig Kallendorf

Download or read book The Other Virgil written by Craig Kallendorf and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007-10-18 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of how the Aeneid has been approached by various postclassical authors - including Shakespeare and Milton - not as an endorsement of the ideals of their societies, but as a model for poems that probed and challenged dominant values, just as Virgil himself had done centuries before.

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