Darkness Visible. A Study of Vergil's 'Aeneid'. - JOHNSON, W.R.,

a study of Vergil's Aeneid

KORTE INHOUD

?This book does not claim to be a work of original argument but one of ?synthesis and mediation.? It consists of four chapters, disarmingly referred to in the preface as essays, of which the two middle ones (?) offer detailed discussion of the style and meaning of key passages from the ?Aeneid? set beside their Greek models. Full texts and translations are provided, so that the analyses are accessible to the ?comparative? student with little Latin and no Greek, while the professional classicist will welcome them as an addition to the still surprisingly meagre body of hard ?literary? criticism of classical epic. (?) The strength of this book lies in my view less in its wresting with multiple allegory than in the fresh emphasis it places on Virgil?s esemplastic power (?). The analyses of key passages from the ?Aeneid? and from Greek epic (Homer and Apollonius) invite us to look more closely not only at the language, prosody, etc., but also at such matters as narrative distancing and the way the Latin poet ident...
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1976Uitgever: University of California Press179 paginasISBN-10: 0520029429ISBN-13: 9780520029422

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