The Magical Art of Virgil.

Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1931.,

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Author

Rand, Edward Kennard

Publishers

Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1931.

Size

XI, 458 p. Original cloth in plastic with golden top edge.

Dust jacket

Languages

English

Inscribed

First edition

Description

From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Rubbed, rough edge, pencil annotations on endpapers and first few pages, somewhat stained title page, otherwise good. - CONTENTS: I. VIRGIL�S MAGIC AND HIS LITERARY GOAL -- II. THE PRELUDE TO THE BUCOLICS -- III. EPIC FROM PASTORAL (ECLOGUES II, III, V, IV) -- IV. PASTORAL ALLEGORY AND CONTEMPORARY EVENTS (ECLOGUES VII, VIII, IX, VI, I) -- V. VIRGIL�S ARCADIA (ECLOGUE X) -- VI. WORKS AND DAYS � A CHALLENGE TO HESIOD -- VII. THE PHILOSOPHY OF VINE AND TREE �A CHALLENGE TO HESIOD AND TO LUCRETIUS -- VIII. THE ANIMALS OF THE FARM � A CHALLENGE TO LUCRETIUS AND TO ENNIUS -- IX. THE HUMAN BEES AND THE STORY OF ORPHEUS � A CHALLENGE TO HOMER -- X. VIRGIL AND THE DRAMA -- XI. TRAGEDY FROM ROMANCE -- XII. PRIMITIVE SIMPLICITY FROM IMPERIAL ROME -- INDEX.