The Epic Successors of Virgil - A Study in the Dynamics of a Tradition - Bog af Philip (University of Cambridge) Hardie - Paperback
This book is a critically sophisticated introduction to the epic tradition of the early Roman empire, specifically the epic poems of Ovid, Lucan, Statius, Valerius Flaccus, and Silius Italicus. It explores the use that they all make of the great Augustan epic of Virgil, the Aeneid. All Latin is translated.