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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Reception of Virgil"”.
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The Poet at Work: Concepts of Authorship in the Ancient Reception of Virgil
This thesis explores how Virgil's readers imagined the authorial techniques and biographical persona of Virgil, the most canonical – yet extraordinarily elusive – Latin poet. While ancient biography is often dismissed as transparently fictional, this thesis makes a case for taking biographical …
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Reading Servius in Context and Reception
The earliest Virgilian manuscripts are from the fourth century, so all we have are multiple receptions of Virgil. Virgil’s most famous commentator, Servius, lived at the time when Roman culture was being Christianised and when the greatness of Rome projected in Virgil was in flux. I focus on the …
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Incarnation, Interpretation and Quotation: Augustine's Cassiciacum Dialogues and Confessions
… I will explore how Augustine uses his awareness of the malleability of language productively to find an adequate expression for this topic. It is a crucial issue for Augustine as it challenges exegesis of the scriptures, a text called sacred and considered the word of God, but written in …