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Scott Mcgill

Virgil Recomposed

The Mythological and Secular Centos in Antiquity

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The Virgilian centos anticipate the avant-garde and smash the image of a staid, sober, and centered classical world. This book examines the twelve mythological and secular Virgilian centos that survive from antiquity. The centos, in which authors take non-consecutive lines or segments of lines from the Eclogues, Georgics, and Aeneid and reconnect them to produce new poems, have received limited attention. No other book-length study exists of all the centos, which date from ca. 200 to ca. 530.The centos are literary games, and they have a playful shock value that feels very modern. Yet the texts also demand to be taken seriously for what they… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-0-19-803910-5
  • EAN: 9780198039105
  • Produktnummer: 13938055
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Masse: 1'707 KB

Über den Autor


Scott McGill is Assistant Professor of Classical Studies at Rice University.

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