The Ancient Lives of Virgil: Literary and Historical Studies edited by Anton Powell, Philip Hardie
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Overview: The Ancient Lives of the poet Virgil, written in prose (and sometimes in verse), have long enjoyed great, though controversial, influence. Modern critics have often been scornful of these Lives, for trying to construct biography of the poet from allegorical reading of his verse. Yet some elements of the Lives are trusted, and quietly adopted as canonical, most notably the dating of Virgil’s death. Some vignettes in the Lives have been cherished for their image of an emotive poet, as when Virgil, by evoking in verse the premature death of Augustus’ nephew Marcellus, caused the young man’s bereaved mother to faint. Less romantic detail from the Lives, as of Virgil’s privileged material circumstances at the heart of the Augustan regime, has been less regarded.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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