TY - BOOK ID - 78674689 TI - Darkness visible PY - 2015 SN - 022625237X 9780226252377 9780226252230 022625223X 1336190175 PB - Chicago London DB - UniCat KW - Epic poetry, Latin KW - History and criticism. KW - Virgil. KW - Aeneas KW - Αἰνείας KW - Aineias KW - Enéas KW - Эней KW - Ėneĭ KW - Еней KW - Eneja KW - Enees KW - Eneo KW - Énée KW - Aeinéas KW - Enea KW - Enejs KW - Enėjas KW - Aineiasz KW - アイネイアース KW - Aineiāsu KW - Eneasz KW - Ajnejas KW - Eneias KW - Енеја KW - Aeneis KW - 埃涅阿斯 KW - Ainieasi KW - In literature. KW - Rome KW - aeneid, vergil, virgil, rome, mythology, history, literature, prehistory, heroism, aeneas, aeneis, epic poetry, allegory, apollonius, homer, classicism, language, prosody, narrative, distancing, interiority, tragedy, empire, literary criticism, nonfiction, nachleben, fall, decline, dissolution, politics, hero, sacrifice, war, destruction, violence, gods, classics, ancient world, greece. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78674689 AB - One of the best books ever written on one of humanity's greatest epics, W. R. Johnson's classic study of Vergil's Aeneid challenges centuries of received wisdom. Johnson rejects the political and historical reading of the epic as a record of the glorious prehistory of Rome and instead foregrounds Vergil's enigmatic style and questioning of the heroic myths. With an approach to the text that is both grounded in scholarship and intensely personal, and in a style both rhetorically elegant and passionate, Johnson offers readings of specific passages that are nuanced and suggestive as he focuses on the "somber and nourishing fictions" in Vergil's poem. A timeless work of scholarship, Darkness Visible will enthrall classicists as well as students and scholars of the history of criticism-specifically the way in which politics influence modern readings of the classics-and of poetry and literature. ER -