Epic and Empire: Politics and Generic Form from Virgil to Milton by David Quint

Epic and Empire: Politics and Generic Form from Virgil to Milton

David Quint

448 pages first pub 1993 (editions)

essays history challenging reflective slow-paced
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Alexander the Great, according to Plutarch, carried on his campaigns a copy of the Iliad, kept alongside a dagger; on a more pronounced ideological level, ancient Romans looked to the Aeneid as an argument for imperialism. In this major reinterpre...

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