Virgil's Iliad: An Essay on Epic Narrative

by K.W. Gransden

Book Overview

This is a book about Virgil's Aeneid, especially the second half of the poem, are explores in some detail Virgil's use of Homer's Iliad. The author's main purpose is to try to re-establish the value and importance of books VII-XII of the Aeneid, which he argues, far from constituting a falling off from the more familiar earlier books, Aeneid VII-XII presents a continuous epic narrative of sustained power, planned and executed on the largest scale...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521287561
• ISBN13: 9780521287562
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"