The Last Trojan Hero: A Cultural History of Virgil's Aeneid

by Philip Hardie

"I sing of arms and of a man: his fate had made him fugitive: he was the first to journey from the coasts of Troy as far as Italy and the Lavinian shores." The resonant opening lines of Virgil's Aeneid rank among the most famous and consistently recited verses to have been passed down to later ages by antiquity. And after the Odyssey and the Iliad, Virgil's masterpiece is arguably the greatest classical text in the whole of Western literature...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1784534838
• ISBN13: 9781784534837
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"