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Dirae : a poem from the appendix vergiliana; introduction, text, translation and commentary /

The Dirae is a curse uttered, in bucolic hexameters, by an Italian farmer against his former estate confiscated to enable the settlement of Caesarian veterans in the aftermath of the battle of Philippi: this commentary is the first work, in eighty years, to offer a systematic exploration of the poem...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kayachev, Boris (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Swansea : Classical Press of Wales, 2024.
Subjects:
Virgil > Authorship.
Virgil > Criticism and interpretation.
Dirae.
Appendix Vergiliana.
Latin poetry > History and criticism.

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