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Short Epics

Short Epics

by Maffeo Vegio
Hardback
Publication Date: 30/07/2004

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Maffeo Vegio (1407-1458) was the outstanding Latin poet of the first half of the fifteenth century. This volume includes Book XIII of Vergil's Aeneid, Vegio's famous continuation of the Roman epic, which was extremely popular in the later Renaissance, printed many times and translated into every major European language (and even into Scottish). It also contains three other epic works: Astyanax, based on an episode in the Iliad; The Golden Fleece (Vellus Aureum); and Antonias, a short epic based on the life of Saint Anthony of Egypt. Antonias is the first Christian epic of the Renaissance, a precursor of Milton's Paradise Lost. This volume contains the first modern editions of the Latin text of Antonias and Astyanax.
ISBN:
9780674014831
9780674014831
Category:
Literary studies: poetry & poets
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
30-07-2004
Language:
English
Publisher:
Harvard University Press
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
256
Dimensions (mm):
203x133x19mm
Weight:
0.39kg

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