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- The Cambridge Companion to Virgil
- Frontispiece
- The Cambridge Companion to Virgil
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Preface to the First Edition
- 1 Introduction: ‘The Classic of All Europe’
- Part I Receptions
- Part II Forms
- Part III Contexts
- 14 Poetry and Power: Virgil’s Poetry in Contemporary Context
- 15 Rome and its Traditions
- 16 Virgil and the Cosmos: Religious and Philosophical Ideas
- 17 Virgil’s Intertextual Personae
- 18 Virgil and Tragedy
- Part IV Themes
- Envois
- Dateline
- Works Cited
- Index Locorum
- Index Nominum et Rerum
- Cambridge Companions to …
16 - Virgil and the Cosmos: Religious and Philosophical Ideas
from Part III - Contexts
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 July 2019
- The Cambridge Companion to Virgil
- Frontispiece
- The Cambridge Companion to Virgil
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Preface to the First Edition
- 1 Introduction: ‘The Classic of All Europe’
- Part I Receptions
- Part II Forms
- Part III Contexts
- 14 Poetry and Power: Virgil’s Poetry in Contemporary Context
- 15 Rome and its Traditions
- 16 Virgil and the Cosmos: Religious and Philosophical Ideas
- 17 Virgil’s Intertextual Personae
- 18 Virgil and Tragedy
- Part IV Themes
- Envois
- Dateline
- Works Cited
- Index Locorum
- Index Nominum et Rerum
- Cambridge Companions to …
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- The Cambridge Companion to Virgil , pp. 279 - 298Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019