The Epic Successors of Virgil: A Study in the Dynamics of a Tradition by Philip Hardie

The Epic Successors of Virgil: A Study in the Dynamics of a Tradition

Roman Literature and Its Contexts

Philip Hardie

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This book is a critically sophisticated introduction to the epic tradition of the early Roman empire, specifically the epic poems of Ovid, Lucan, Statius, Valerius Flaccus, and Silius Italicus. It explores the use that they all make of the great A...

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