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The Speeches in Vergil's Aeneid / Gilbert Highet.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Princeton Legacy Library ; 1491Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©1972Description: 1 online resource (392 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780691619491
  • 9781400869466
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 873/.01 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. THE SPEECHES AND THEIR SPEAKERS -- 3. FORMAL SPEECHES -- 4. INFORMAL SPEECHES -- 5. THE SPEECHES AND THEIR MODELS -- 6. VERGILIVS ORATOR AN POETA -- APPENDIX -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX LOCORVM -- INDEX NOMINVM ET RERVM
Summary: In the Aeneid men, women, gods, and goddesses are characterized by the speeches assigned to them far more than by descriptions of their appearance or behavior. Most of the speeches are highly emotional and individualized, reminding us of the most powerful utterances of Greek tragedy.Gilbert Highet has analyzed all the speeches in the Aeneid, using statistical techniques as well as more traditional methods of scholarship. He has classified the speeches; identified their models in earlier Greek and Latin literature; analyzed their structure; and discussed their importance in the portrayal of character. He finds that Vergil used standard rhetorical devices with discretion, and that his models were poets rather than orators. Nevertheless, this study shows Vergil to have been a master dramatist as well as a great epic poet.Originally published in 1972.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. THE SPEECHES AND THEIR SPEAKERS -- 3. FORMAL SPEECHES -- 4. INFORMAL SPEECHES -- 5. THE SPEECHES AND THEIR MODELS -- 6. VERGILIVS ORATOR AN POETA -- APPENDIX -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX LOCORVM -- INDEX NOMINVM ET RERVM

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In the Aeneid men, women, gods, and goddesses are characterized by the speeches assigned to them far more than by descriptions of their appearance or behavior. Most of the speeches are highly emotional and individualized, reminding us of the most powerful utterances of Greek tragedy.Gilbert Highet has analyzed all the speeches in the Aeneid, using statistical techniques as well as more traditional methods of scholarship. He has classified the speeches; identified their models in earlier Greek and Latin literature; analyzed their structure; and discussed their importance in the portrayal of character. He finds that Vergil used standard rhetorical devices with discretion, and that his models were poets rather than orators. Nevertheless, this study shows Vergil to have been a master dramatist as well as a great epic poet.Originally published in 1972.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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