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This book is a critically sophisticated introduction to the epic tradition of the early Roman empire, specifically the epic poems of Ovid, Lucan, Statius, Valerius Flaccus, and Silius Italicus. It explores the use that they all make of the great Augustan epic of Virgil, the Aeneid. All Latin is translated.Hardie, Philip is the author of 'Epic Successors of Virgil A Study in the Dynamics of a Tradition' with ISBN 9780521425629 and ISBN 052142562X.
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