Vergil: Bucolica - Georgica - Aeneis: Eine Einfuhrung (Heidelberger Studienhefte Zur Altertumswissenschaft)

by Michael von Albrecht

Eine fundierte, gut lesbare Hinfuhrung zu Vergils Bucolica, Georgica und Aeneis. Die Orientierung erleichtert die gleich bleibende Abfolge der Aufbau, Gattung und Vorganger, literarische Technik, Sprache und Stil, Literaturtheorie, Uberlieferung und das (bei diesem Klassiker Europas besonders reiche) Fortwirken. Studierende, Lehrende und alle Interessierten finden hier eine gehaltvolle Einfuhrung in die aktuellen Hauptprobleme der Forschung, eine weiterfuhrende Bibliographie, vor allem aber vielfaltige Anregungen fur Interpretationen.

235 pages, Paperback

First published January 3, 2007

About the author

The son of the composer Georg Albrecht first attended the Music Academy in Stuttgart, where he graduated in 1955 after taking the state examination. In Tübingen and Paris, he then studied classical philology and Indology in 1959. In 1964, Albrecht was appointed professor of classical philology at the University of Heidelberg, where he remained until his retirement in 1998. He was also the Visiting Professor at the University of Amsterdam and a visiting member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton in 1981. Michael von Albrecht's research focuses on ancient music, Roman literature and its reception, history, and comparative literature . His two-volume history of Roman literature, which has been translated into eight languages, is as much a standard work as the masters of Roman prose. He also went through translations from the Latin, especially from Virgil and Ovid . In 1998 he received an honorary doctorate from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki . For his translations of Latin, he was awarded with the Johann Heinrich Voss Award for translation excellent, in 2004.

Reviews

[Alex Willow · Rating 3 out of 5]

Монографией это можно назвать с натяжкой, скорее, это библиография с краткими комментариями. 70% книги -- пересказ.