 | Homeric Effects in Vergil''s Narrative: Updated Edition Subjects: Virgil. Aeneis; Epic poetry Latin -- History and criticism; Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- To 1500; Latin poetry -- Greek influences; Homer -- Appreciation -- Rome; Imitation in literature; Rome -- In literature; Homer -- Influence; Rhetoric Ancient; The study of Homeric imitations in Vergil has one of the longest traditions in Western culture, starting from the very moment the Aeneid was circulated. Homeric Effects in Vergil's Narrative is the first English translation of one of the most important and influential modern studies in this tradition. In this revised and expanded edition, Alessandro Barchiesi advances innovative approaches even as he recuperates significant earlier interpretations, from Servius to G. N. Knauer. Alessandro Barchiesi is the Gesue and Helen Spogli Professor of Italian Studies in the Department of Classics at Stanford University and professor of Latin literature at the University of Siena, Italy. He is the author of several books and the coeditor of The Oxford Handbook of Roman Studies . |
