Fifty Years at the Sibyl's Heels: Selected Papers on Virgil and Rome by Nicholas

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Fifty Years at the Sibyl's Heels by Nicholas Horsfall Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description This volume brings together a posthumous collection of over 40 scholarly papers by leading Latinist and one of the world s leading interpreters of Virgil, Nicholas Horsfall. Publisher Description Nicholas Horsfall was one of the most recognizable and influential Latinists of his generation. His main legacy is his work on Virgil and the five erudite commentaries on the Aeneid, but he was also a prolific writer of papers, both Virgilian and non-Virgilian. A number of Horsfall s papers, including the important Camilla , are translated in this volume for the first from 1971 to 2015, the papers are drawn from hisentire output demonstrating his unparalleled ability to connect Roman poetry with history, antiquarianism, and Realien. While showcasing his unique analysis of Virgil, it also highlights Horsfall s work as botha Latinist and a Romanist, illuminating the coherence in his approach. This volume includes many Virgilian papers that have become classics--on Aeneas the colonist, and on the Aeneas-legend, for example. This does not detract from the value of the non-Virgilian papers, many of which--on the collegium poetarum, and on discussions of reading and libraries at Rome, for example--have become standard treatments of their subjects. Throughout all these works there is an astonishing degree ofconnection, with glimpses in many papers of h

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
• Year: 2020
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9780198863861
• Condition: Fine

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