Read Virgil's Homeric Lens

Virgil's Homeric Lens

Edan Dekel

4.9/5 (17875 ratings)

Description:Virgil 's Homeric Lens reevaluates the traditional view of the Aeneid 's relationship to Homer 's Iliad and Odyssey. Almost since the death of Virgil, there has been an assumption that the Aeneid breaks into two discrete halves: Virgil 's Odyssey, and Virgil 's Iliad. Although modified in various ways over the centuries, this neat dichotomy has generally diminished the complexity and resonance of the connection between the two canonical epic poets. This work offers an alternate approach in which Virgil uses the transformative power of the Odyssey as a precise filter through which to read the Iliadic experience.By examining the ways in which Virgil bases his own epic project on the dynamic interaction between the two Homeric poems themselves, Edan Dekel proposes a system in which the Aeneid uses the Odyssey both as a conceptual model for writing an intertextual epic and as a powerful refracting lens for the specific interpretation of the Iliad and its consequences. The traditional view of the Homeric poems as static sources for the construction of distinct "Odyssean" and "Iliadic" halves of the Aeneid is supplanted by an analysis which emphasizes the active and persistent influence of the Odyssey as a guide to processing the major thematic concerns of the Iliad and exploring the multiple aftermaths of the Trojan war.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Virgil's Homeric Lens. To get started finding Virgil's Homeric Lens, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Pages: —

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: —

Release: —

ISBN: 1136653805

Description: Virgil 's Homeric Lens reevaluates the traditional view of the Aeneid 's relationship to Homer 's Iliad and Odyssey. Almost since the death of Virgil, there has been an assumption that the Aeneid breaks into two discrete halves: Virgil 's Odyssey, and Virgil 's Iliad. Although modified in various ways over the centuries, this neat dichotomy has generally diminished the complexity and resonance of the connection between the two canonical epic poets. This work offers an alternate approach in which Virgil uses the transformative power of the Odyssey as a precise filter through which to read the Iliadic experience.By examining the ways in which Virgil bases his own epic project on the dynamic interaction between the two Homeric poems themselves, Edan Dekel proposes a system in which the Aeneid uses the Odyssey both as a conceptual model for writing an intertextual epic and as a powerful refracting lens for the specific interpretation of the Iliad and its consequences. The traditional view of the Homeric poems as static sources for the construction of distinct "Odyssean" and "Iliadic" halves of the Aeneid is supplanted by an analysis which emphasizes the active and persistent influence of the Odyssey as a guide to processing the major thematic concerns of the Iliad and exploring the multiple aftermaths of the Trojan war.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Virgil's Homeric Lens. To get started finding Virgil's Homeric Lens, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Special Offer | $0.00

Special Offer! | $0.00

Virgil's Homeric Lens

Virgil's Homeric Lens

More Books

[(Virgil's Homeric Lens)] [Author: Edan Dekel] published on (June, 2014)

[(Virgil's Homeric Lens)] [Author: Edan Dekel] published on (June, 2014)

Virgil's Homeric Lens (Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies) by Edan Dekel (2011-09-06)

Virgil's Homeric Lens (Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies) by Edan Dekel (2011-09-06)

Virgil's Homeric Lens (Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies) by Edan Dekel (2011-07-27)

Virgil's Homeric Lens (Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies) by Edan Dekel (2011-07-27)

Virgil's Homeric Lens (Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies)

Virgil's Homeric Lens (Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies)