THero

ISBN: 9781784534837 出版年：2014 页码：270 Philip Hardie Bloomsbury Publishing

The resonant opening lines of Virgil's Aeneid rank among tand consistently recited verses to hadown to later ages by antiquity. And after The Odyssey and the Iliad, Virgil's masterpiece is arguably the greatest classicwhole of Western literature. This sinuous and richly characterised epic vitally influenced th poetry of Dante, Petrarch and Milton. The doomed love of Dido and Aeneas inspired Purcell, while for T.S. Eliot Virgil's poem was 'the classic of all Europe'. The poet's stirring tale of a refugee Trojan prince, 'towaves' to found a new homeland in Italy, has provided much fertile material for writings on colonialism and for discourses of ethic and national identity. The Aeneid has evas a template and source of justification for British and European imperialisms and for American nation-building. In his major and much anticipated nHardie explores the many remarkable afterlives- ancient, medieval and modern- of the Aeneid in literature, music, politics, the visual arts and film.THero, by one of Virgil's leading interpreters, put continually fresh and surprising perspectives on one of the outstanding works of civilization. Placing the Aeneid on a broad artistic and historical canvas, it shows with elegance, originality and creative insight how and in what ways this remarkably durable text continues so powerfully to capture the cultural imagination and why it still speaks to of centuries.