Virgil Recomposed Polite Encounters thought provoking

thought provoking

bringing together an international team of thirty-five leading scholars in one volume

and detailed line drawings of the pertinent anatomy corresponding to the midline images

The frameworks adopted here consciously blend historical contextualisation

Virgil Recomposed Polite Encounters thought provokingThe 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