Emotional Questions.
Vergil, the Emotions, and the Transformation of Epic Poetry.
An Analysis of Select Scenes
Wolfgang Polleichtner
This
book brings together traditional approaches to the reception of the
Homeric epic poems in Vergil's Aeneid, new advances in the field of
Hellenistic poetry, as well as latest results from studies of emotions
in antiquity. Using selected Vergilian passages that can be compared
with a sufficient amount of relevant material from ancient poets and
philosophers, this book attempts to reconstruct in greater detail what
probably was Vergil's own understanding of what it meant to write epic
poetry in his time.
ISBN
978-3-86821-189-4, 352 S., kt, Euro 35,- 2009