Vergil and Elegy by Alison Keith HARDBACK 9781487547950

Vergil and Elegy\nby Alison Keith\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nDelivery\nUsually delivered in 8\u20139 working days.\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Alison Keith\nTitle: Vergil and Elegy\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press\nPublication year: 2023\nISBN-13: 9781487547950\nISBN-10: 1487547951\nRRP: \u00A376.00\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nBorn in 70 BCE, the Roman poet Vergil came of age during a period of literary experimentalism among Latin authors. These authors introduced new Greek verse forms and metres into the existing repertoire of Latin poetic genres and measures, foremost among them being elegy, a genre that the ancients thought originated in funeral lament, but which in classical Rome became first-person poetry abou.