Virgil's Aeneid: Semantic Relations and Proper Names

by Michael Paschalis

Overview

Paschalis offers a new reading of the whole Aeneid based on the meaning of proper names and using the scene of Laocoon and the Trojan Horse as a model. He sheds fresh light on every episode and book of the epic from the storm of Aeneid 1 to the death of Turnus, and reveals a sustained, pervasive, and deep-going exploitation of the meaning of names.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198146889
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	02/12/1998
Pages:	456
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.30(d)
Lexile:	1360L (what's this?)

About the Author

University of Crete

Editorial Reviews

"This extraordinarily stimulating book is the first detailed study of the Aeneid based on close examination of its essential semantic clusters....This is a seminal, innovative work and will be as influential for the study of Virgil's semantics as the theoretical work of Conte is for his generic originality."—Michael C. J. Putnam, Brown University

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