Virgil and the Augustan reception

Thomas, Richard F. 1950- (Author).

Summary: He looks at Augustus in the poetry of Virgil, detects in the poets and grammarians of antiquity alternately a collaborative oppositional reading and an attempt to suppress such reading, studies creative translation (particularly Dryden's), which reasserts the "Augustan" Virgil, and examines naive translation which can be truer to the spirit of Virgil. Scrutiny of "textual cleansing," philology's rewriting or excision of troubling readings, leads to readings by both supporters and opponents of fascism and National Socialism to support or subvert the latter-day Augustus. The book ends with a diachronic examination of the ways successive ages have tried to make the Aeneid conform to their upbeat expectations of this poet."--BOOK JACKET.

Record details

ISBN: 9780511158131
ISBN: 0511158130
ISBN: 0521782880
ISBN: 9780521782883
ISBN: 051148240X (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9780511482403 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9780511031090 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0511031092 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9780511016509 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0511016506 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xx, 324 p.)
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Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-312) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction: the critical landscape -- 1. Virgil and Augustus -- 2. Virgil and the poets: Horace, Ovid and Lucan -- 3. Other voices in Servius: schooldust of the ages -- 4. Dryden's Virgil and the politics of translation -- 5. Dido and her translators -- 6. Philology and textual cleansing -- 7. Virgil in a cold climate: fascist reception -- 8. Beyond the borders of Eboli: anti-fascist reception -- 9. Critical and games.
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Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.