Virgil and the Moderns

by Theodore Ziolkowski

Virgil has permeated modern culture like no other icon of Western civilization. In the United States, for example, three of his phrases appear on the dollar bill, and his Aeneid was often cited as a model for the nation's westward expansion. Theodore Ziolkowski traces the impact of the Roman poet into the twentieth century, showing how the Aeneid , the Eclogues , and the Georgics supplied the patterns, images, values, and often the very words used...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691032483
• ISBN13: 9780691032481
• Release Date: August 1993
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.6"