Roman Poets of the Augustan Age : Virgil (Paperback)

1. General introduction; 2. Virgil's place in Roman literature; 3. Life and personal characteristics of Virgil; 4. The Eclogues; 5. Motives, form, substance, and sources of the Georgics; 6. Relation of the Georgics to the poem of Lucretius; 7. The Georgics: a poem representative of Italy; 8. The Roman epic before the time of Virgil; 9. Form and subject of the Aeneid; 10. The Aeneid as the epic of the Roman empire; 11. The Aeneid as an epic poem of human life.