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9780198140368

Virgil's Aeneid Cosmos and Imperium

  • ISBN13:

    9780198140368

  • ISBN10:

    0198140363

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1986-04-10
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

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."

Table of Contents

Abbreviations
Introduction
Poetry and cosmology in antiquity
Cosmology and history in Virgil
Gigantomachy in the Aeneid: I
Gigantomachy in the Aeneid: II
Lucretius and the Aeneid
Hyperbole
Universal expressions in the Aeneid
The shield of Aeneas: The cosmic icon
Epilogue
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