Deserta regna: The Georgics and Empty Space.
The plague at Noricum in Georgics 3 creates empty space (deserta). A geocritical analysis of the plague landscape and related spaces illuminates generic trajectories of Virgil's poem and its relationship to sociopolitical developments. Virgil energizes emptiness as negative space through a rhythmic...
| Publicado en: | Classical Philology Vol. 119; no. 3; pp. 354 - 376 |
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