Bøger af Jasper Griffin

Virgil lived through the fall of the Roman Republic and the establishment of the Empire. This text studies his poems and the way they attempt to combine technical brilliance and beauty with profound meditation on the nature of imperialism and the relation of the individual to the State.

"The Iliad" and "The Odyssey" stand at the very beginning of Greek literature. This book is concerned with the ideas of these poems and shows that each of the two epics has its own coherent and suggestive view of the world and of man's place in it.

The `Iliad' and `Odyssey' are not just good stories. Homeric poetry manages to confer significance on the persons and actions, and to interpret the world and human life and death. This book shows how this is done.