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Virgil And The Augustan Reception New Ed by Thomas, Richard F. (harvard University, Massachusetts); Thomas, Richard F. is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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This book examines the ideological reception of Virgil at specific moments in the past two millennia. It focuses on the emperor Augustus in the poetry of Virgil, detects in the poets and grammarians of antiquity pro- and anti-Augustan readings, studies Dryden's 1697 Royalist translation, and also naive American translation. It scrutinizes nineteenth-century philology's rewriting or excision of troubling readings, and covers readings by both supporters and opponents of fascism and National Social
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Thomas, Richard F. (harvard University, Massachusetts); Thomas, Richard F.
- Publisher
- Cambridge ; Cambridge University Press, 2001.
- Published
- 2001
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780511177194
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Poetry, Language Learning
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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