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Solitary Sphere in the Age of Virgil

By Kachuck, Aaron J

Solitary Sphere in the Age of Virgil Philosophy

Solitary Sphere in the Age of Virgil

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The Solitary Sphere in the Age of Virgil uses an enriched tripartite model of Roman culture-touching not only the public and the private, but also the solitary-in order to present a radical re-interpretation of Latin literature and of the historical causes of this third sphere's relativeinvisibility in scholarship. By connecting Cosmos and Imperium to the Individual, the solitary sphere was not so much a way of avoiding politics, as a political education in itself. As re-imagined by literature in this age literature, this sphere was an essential space for the formation of the newRoman citizen of the Augustan revolution, and was behind many of the notable features of the literary revolution of Virgil's age: the expansion of the possibilities of the book of poetry, the birth of the literary cursus, new coordinations of cosmology and politics within strictly organized schemes, the attraction of first-person genres, and the subjective style. Through close readings of Cicero's late works and the oeuvres of Virgil, Horace, and Propertius and the works of other authors in the age of Virgil, The Solitary Sphere thus presents a revelatory reassessment of the classicism ofclassical Roman literature, and contributes to the study of pre-modern culture more generally, especially for traditions that have taken antiquity as too fixed a point in their own literary, religious, and cultural histories.
Product details
Number of Pages:
332
Release Date:
2022-04-01
Publication Date:
2021-07-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0197579043
ISBN13:
9780197579046
Weight:
663 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
22 cm
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