{"product_id":"ronald-knoxs-lectures-on-virgils-aeneid-9781350354272","title":"Ronald Knoxs Lectures on Virgils Aeneid","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book makes available Ronald Knox's hitherto unpublished lectures on Virgil's \u003ci\u003eAeneid\u003c\/i\u003e delivered at Trinity College, Oxford, as part of a lecture course on Virgil in 1912. Written with Knox's customary incisiveness and with frequent allusions to contemporary life, the lectures are devoted to the appreciation of the \u003ci\u003eAeneid\u003c\/i\u003e and focus on what he called the essential and dominant characteristics' that make up its greatness. They deal with Virgil's political and religious outlook, ideas of the afterlife, sense of romance and pathos, narrative style, sources, versification and appreciation of scenery. His interpretation of the relationship between Dido and Aeneas renders redundant the question, much debated to this day, of whether Aeneas loved Dido, and also portrays Aeneas more sympathetically than is currently fashionable.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The additional introductory and critical essays by the contributors place the lectures in their historical and scholarly context, bring out th\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53187301802327,"sku":"9781350354272","price":28.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/ronald-knoxs-lectures-on-virgils-aeneid-9781350354272","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}