Research Catalog

Title

Fifty years at the Sibyl's heels : selected papers on Virgil and Rome / Nicholas Horsfall.

Author

Horsfall, Nicholas

Publication

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020.

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Details

Description

xv, 522 pages; 24 cm

Summary

Nicholas Horsfall was one of the most recognizable and influential Latinists of his generation. His main legacy is his work on Virgil and the five erudite commentaries on the Aeneid, but he was also a prolific writer of papers, both Virgilian and non-Virgilian. A number of Horsfall's papers, including the important 'Camilla', are translated in this volume for the first time.0Stretching from 1971 to 2015, the papers are drawn from his entire output demonstrating his unparalleled ability to connect Roman poetry with history, antiquarianism, and Realien. While showcasing his unique analysis of Virgil, it also highlights Horsfall's work as both a Latinist and a Romanist, illuminating the coherence in his approach. This volume includes many Virgilian papers that have become classics-on Aeneas the colonist, and on the Aeneas-legend, for example. This does not detract from the value of the non-Virgilian papers, many of which-on the collegium poetarum, and on discussions of reading and libraries at Rome, for example-have become standard treatments of their subjects. Throughout all these works there is an astonishing degree of connection, with glimpses in many papers of his other research interests.0'Nicholas Horsfall needs to be approached through his short papers, typically fresh, innovative and stimulating, and he has been so productive that nobody can claim to have had a full view of his scholarship. When it comes to placing a literary text in the frames offered by material culture, documents, landscapes, history, and by religious, legal, military and antiquarian studies, he was unrivalled.' Professor Alessandro Barchiesi, Professor of Classics, New York University.

Subject

• Virgil > Criticism and interpretation
• Virgil
• To 510 B.C
• Rome > History > To 510 B.C
• Rome (Empire)

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JFE 21-2795

ISBN

• 9780198863861
• 0198863861

LCCN

2020945329

OCLC

1147258724

Author

Horsfall, Nicholas, author.

Title

Fifty years at the Sibyl's heels : selected papers on Virgil and Rome / Nicholas Horsfall.

Publisher

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020.

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

To 510 B.C.

Research Call Number

JFE 21-2795