Religion in Virgil. - BAILEY, C.,
KORTE INHOUD
?Mr. Bailey has given us in this book a most valuable supplement to his ?Phases in the Religion of Ancient Rome? (?). On gets an idea from critics like Conington that Virgil?s mind was cluttered with a tangled mass of beliefs, superstitions, and philosophical doctrines which naturally work confusion as he endeavours to express them in his poetry. All is now clear, however, in the light of Mr. Bailey?s careful treatment. (?) The reader may be sure that the entire mass of evidence is before him. He feels that he is reading not merely a pleasant essay on the various subjects (?) but a strict account of ?what Virgil said?. (?) Very skilful, among other thins, is the portrayal of the world of the gods. Virgil is not merely adopting a traditional device which he applies somewhat mechanically. The gods have a real reason for existence in the entire scheme of fate and its relation to mortal men that Mr. Bailey discovered in Virgil.? (E.K. RAND in The American Journal of Philology, 1936, p.99).
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Oxford, 1935. 337p. Original blue cloth. Spine gilt titled. Head and tail spine, joints and edges a bit scratched. Small library mark to spine. Library marks on first pages (ex libris on paste-down endpaper as well as blind tooling stamps). [Antiquarian] [Auteur: BAILEY, C.,] [Uitgever: Clarendon Press] [Jaar: 1935] [Titel: Religion in Virgil.]
