Author: VirgilPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Aeneid (1513), Part Two: Books IX-XIII
Author: VirgilThe Aeneid (1513) Volume II, Books IX-XIII, Appendices, Glossary, Index
Author: VirgilPublisher:
ISBN: 9781781880203
Category : Epic poetry, Latin
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Gavin Douglas, 'The Aeneid' (1513) Volume 2
Author: VirgilPublisher: MHRA
ISBN: 1907322493
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
The 13th book of the Aeneid is by Maffeo Vegio.
Gavin Douglas,The Aeneid(1513): Part Two: Books IX-XIII, Appendices, Glossary, Index
Author: KendalThe Aeneid (1513): Books IX-XIII, Appendices, Glossary, Index
Author: VirgilPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Epic poetry, Latin
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
Gavin Douglas, 'the Aeneid' Volume 2
Author: Gordon KendalPublisher:
ISBN: 9781781880876
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Virgil's story of Aeneas, exiled from fallen Troy and leading his people to a new life through the founding of Rome, was familiar in the middle ages. The first true and full translation into any form of English was completed in Scotland in 1513 by Gavin Douglas and published in print forty years later. His version (still considered by some to be the finest of all) is significant historically but also for its intrinsic qualities: vigour, faithfulness, and a remarkable flair for language. Douglas was a scholar as well as a poet and brought to his task a detailed knowledge of the Latin text and of its major commentators, together with a sensitive mastery of his own language, both Scots and English, contemporary and archaic. The present edition is the first to regularise his spelling and make access easier for the modern reader without compromising the authentic Scots-English blend of his language. Glossaries (side- and end-) explain obscurities in his vocabulary while the introduction and notes set the work in context and indicate how Douglas understands and refocusses the great Virgilian epic. It will be of interest to medievalists and Renaissance scholars, to classicists and to students of the English language, and not least to the general reader whom Douglas had especially in mind. Gordon Kendal is an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of English, University of St Andrews.
Cultural Genealogy
Author: Raphael FalcoPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1317156552
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Cultural Genealogy explores the popularization in the Renaissance of the still pervasive myth that later cultures are the hereditary descendants of ancient or older cultures. The core of this myth is the widespread belief that a numinous charismatic power can be passed down unchanged, and in concrete forms, from earlier eras. Raphael Falco shows that such a process of descent is an impossible illusion in a knowledge-based culture. Anachronistic adoption of past values can only occur when these values are adapted and assimilated to the target culture. Without such transcultural adaptation, ancient values would appear as alien artifacts rather than as eternal truths. Scholars have long acknowledged the Renaissance borrowings from classical antiquity, but most studies of translatio studii or translatio imperii tacitly accept the early modern myth that there was a genuine translation of Greek and Roman cultural values from the ancient world to the "modern." But as Falco demonstrates, this is patently not the case. The mastering of ancient languages and the rediscovery of lost texts has masked the fact that surprisingly little of ancient religious, ethical, or political ideology was retained — so little that it is crucial to ask why these myths of transcultural descent have not been recognized and interrogated. Through examples ranging from Petrarch to Columbus, Maffeo Vegio to the Habsburgs, Falco shows how the new techne of systematic genealogy facilitated the process of "remythicizing" the ancient authorities, utterly transforming Greek and Roman values and reforging them into the mold of contemporary needs. Chiefly a study of intellectual culture, Cultural Genealogy has ramifications reaching into all levels of society, both early modern and later.
Gavin Douglas, 'The Aeneid' (1513) Volume 1
Author: VirgilPublisher: MHRA
ISBN: 0947623965
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
The 13th book of the Aeneid is by Maffeo Vegio.
The Aeneid (1513), Part One
Author: VirgilGavin Douglas, 'The Aeneid' (1513): 2-Volume Set
Author: Gordon KendalPublisher:
ISBN: 9781907322501
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 898
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