Richard Heinze

Virgils epische Technik Richard Heinze Reprint 2012 edition

Jacket Description/Back: "Absolutely brilliant, even after 90 years." --W. S. Anderson, author of "Essays on Roman SatireReview Quotes: "This was the outstanding book on Virgil in its day, and it remains a superlative and basic study of the techniques by which the poet composes his epic on Aeneas.... Heinze's scholarship is absolutely brilliant, even after 90 years." -- W. S. Anderson, author of Essays on Roman SatirePublisher Marketing: Virgils Epische Technik (1903) was a great pioneering work of abiding importance, which has never been superseded. Richard Heinze provides a remarkable insight into the problems Virgil faced. He identifies certain themes now accepted as central to Virgil's epic vision, among them the subordination of event to emotion; the way in which the poet justifies Aeneas' unheroic flight from Troy; the role of prophecy; and the virtues that make Dido uniquely worthy of Aeneas' love. Heinze was a man of refined literary judgment who wrote in a clear and unpretentious style. This translation from the German is a basic text for students as well as for scholars: published for the first time in paperback, it now includes a helpful Index of passages cited from the Aeneid.

Contributor Bio:  Heinze, Richard Richard Heinze was a great Virgilian scholar. He first published his "Virgils Epische Technik" in 1903.