San Antonio College Library

"Written by the Roman poet Virgil more than two thousand years ago, the story of Aeneas' seven-year journey from the ruins of Troy to Italy, where he becomes the founding ancestor of Rome, is a narrative on an epic scale: Aeneas and his companions contend not only with human enemies but with the whim of the gods. His destiny preordained by Jupiter, Aeneas is nevertheless assailed by dangers invoked by the goddess Juno, and by the torments of love,...

Modern studies of Virgil's Georgics have begun with the assumption that the poem is an exposition or, more recently, an idealization of rustic life and that the contrasting perspectives in it must all be shown to contribute to a single vision of that life if the poem is to be viewed as a coherent unity. The present study begins with the quite different assumption that we must accept inconsistencies in the Georgics as real, because the poem is a series...

Discuses Marco Girolamo Vida's epic poem Christiad.

C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) is best remembered as a literary critic, essayist, theologian, and novelist, and his famed tales The Chronicles of Narnia and The Screwtape Letters have been read by millions. Now, A.T. Reyes reveals a different side of this diverse man of letters: translator. Reyes introduces the surviving fragments of Lewis's translation of Virgil's epic poem, which were rescued from a bonfire. They are presented in parallel with the Latin...

This interpretive reading treats the Eclogues in the light of some of the problems raised by contemporary pastoral criticism. Professor Leach believes that the pastoral poet's attitudes toward man's role in the physical world and in history are revealed by the ways in which he organizes images of nature. -- Amazon.com.

Includes a brief biography of the author, thematic and structural analysis of the work, critical views, and an index of themes and ideas.

Thirteen critical essays on Virgil and his works.