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Virgil: Aeneid Book IX - Virgil, and Hardie, Philip (Editor)
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Aeneid IX marks the beginning of the full-scale narrative of the war between the Trojans and Turnus' Italians which occupies the last quarter of the epic. Two days during which Turnus launches a siege-assault on the Trojan camp while Aeneas is absent are separated by the nocturnal interlude of the ill-fated expedition of the romantic young Trojans Nisus and Euryalus. In this, the first major single-volume commentary in English on the book, Dr Hardie explores Virgil's transformation of Homeric models of battle narrative in ...

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Virgil: Aeneid Book IX 1994, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521359528

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Virgil: Aeneid Book IX 1994, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521351263

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