Madness Unchained: A Reading of Virgil's Aeneid

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Lexington Books, 2007 - Classical literature - 427 pages
The book aims at providing a coherent guide to the entirety of Virgil's Aeneid, with analysis of every scene and, in some cases, every line of crucial passages. The book tries to provide a guide to the vast bibliography and scholarly apparatus that has grown around Virgil studies (especially over the past century), and to offer some critical study of what Virgil's purpose and intent may have been in crafting his response to Augustus' political ascendancy in Rome, Rome's history of near-constant civil strife, and the myths of Rome's origins and their conflicting Trojan, Greek, and native Italian origins.

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Arms and the Man
1
All Fell Silent
37
After It Seemed Best
75
Copyright

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Lee Fratantuono is William Francis Whitlock Professor of Latin at Ohio Wesleyan University.

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