Published 1993
by Bristol Classical Press in London .
Written in
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
| Statement | by Richard Heinze ; translated by Hazel and David Harvey and Fred Robertson ; with a preface by Antonie Wlosok. |
| Classifications | |
|---|---|
| LC Classifications | PA6825 .H413 1993b |
| The Physical Object | |
| Pagination | xiv, 396 p. ; |
| Number of Pages | 396 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL1164504M |
| ISBN 10 | 185399281X |
| LC Control Number | 94144785 |
| OCLC/WorldCa | 29749122 |
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About Virgil's Epic Technique The great German philologist Richard Heinze's Virgils Epische Technik was originally published in German in It was the outstanding book on Virgil in its day, and it remains a very valuable study of the techniques Virgil used to compose the Aeneid. Prices in GBP apply to orders placed in Great Britain only. Prices in € represent the retail prices valid in Germany (unless otherwise indicated). Prices are subject to change without notice. Prices do not include postage and handling if applicable. Free shipping for non-business customers when ordering books at De Gruyter Online. Lucan's epic, the Bellum Civile has been considered an anti-Virgilian epic, disposing of the divine mechanism, treating historical events, and diverging drastically from Virgilian epic practice. The Flavian poet Statius in his book epic Thebaid engages closely with the poetry of Virgil; in his epilogue he advises his poem not to "rival the divine Aeneid, but follow afar and ever venerate its footsteps."Genre: Epic poetry, didactic poetry, pastoral poetry. The great German philologist Richard Heinze's Virgils Epische Technik was originally published in German in It was the outstanding book on Virgil in its day, and it remains a very valuable study of the techniques Virgil used to compose the : Richard Heinze.
Book Description An examination of the main characters in the Aeneid - Aeneas himself, Dido and Turnus - in the light of Virgil's contemporary Augustan political and literary ideology. The characters and the plot and incident of the epic are seen as embodying and exemplifying the ancient ideals of by: Virgil's epic technique. [Richard Heinze] -- Richard Heinze provides a remarkable insight into the problems Virgil faced. He identifies certain themes now accepted as central to Virgil's epic vision, among them the subordination of event to Your Web browser is not enabled for JavaScript. Virgil must first have made an extensive prelimi- nary study of the sources and of his predecessors; [26] if we think of the echoes from epic, epyllion and tragedy that we can still identify in, for example, the story of Dido, we will almost certainly conclude that, as a foundation for his own work. Some of the minor figures were freely invented by Virgil: these probably include Androgeos in Book 2, Achaemenides (above p. 93 n. 43), Nisus and Euryalus, Drances, and many warriors in the battle-scenes, for which the tradition supplied far too few names; but even here Virgil prefers to keep to the tradition wherever possible, and often it may.
