Virgil: A Study in Civilized Poetry / Edition 1

by Brooks Otis

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780806127828
Publisher:	University of Oklahoma Press
Publication date:	10/15/1995
Series:	Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture , #20
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	462
Sales rank:	884,249
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

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.