Madness Unchained: A Reading of Virgil's AeneidThe 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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Page 13
... Augustus ( not Julius , whose death was violent and immediately set off another round of civil strife ) . Both Julius and Augustus were would - be autocrats , but where Julius had failed miserably and was assassinated in the Senate , as ...
... Augustus ( not Julius , whose death was violent and immediately set off another round of civil strife ) . Both Julius and Augustus were would - be autocrats , but where Julius had failed miserably and was assassinated in the Senate , as ...
Page 191
... Augustus . " Perhaps more importantly , though , Virgil has entirely skipped the Roman Republic in his anticipation of Augustus . He will remedy that soon enough , though for now the obvious historical parallel is between Romulus and ...
... Augustus . " Perhaps more importantly , though , Virgil has entirely skipped the Roman Republic in his anticipation of Augustus . He will remedy that soon enough , though for now the obvious historical parallel is between Romulus and ...
Page 195
... Augustus ' sister , and Gaius Claudius Marcellus , a former consul . Augustus had no sons of his own , and so his sister's oldest son was an obvious choice as heir and successor . In 25 B.C. , at the age of seventeen , Marcellus was ...
... Augustus ' sister , and Gaius Claudius Marcellus , a former consul . Augustus had no sons of his own , and so his sister's oldest son was an obvious choice as heir and successor . In 25 B.C. , at the age of seventeen , Marcellus was ...
Contents
Arms and the Man | 1 |
All Fell Silent | 37 |
After It Seemed Best | 75 |
Copyright | |
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Acestes Achilles Actium Aeneas Aeneid Allecto Anchises Apollo appearance Arcadian arma arms Arruns Ascanius Augustan Augustus battle beginning Book 11 Book 9 Camilla Carthage Carthaginians cavalry Chloreus Classical combat commentary Creusa dead death depiction describes Diana Dido Dido's Diomedes divine Drances end of Book epic episode Etruscan Evander Evander's evoke fate father fight final further future goddess gods Greek Harpalyce Hector Helenus hero Homer horse hunt Iliad immortals Italian Italy Juno Juno's Jupiter Jupiter's Juturna killed Latin Latium Lausus Lavinia Lucretius madness Marcellus mention Mezentius mother narrative neas Nisus and Euryalus notes Odysseus once Oxford Palinurus Pallas passage peace Penthesilea poem poem's poet Priam prophecy rage rites Roman Rome Rome's Rutulians scene Servius shield ships Sibyl Sicily simile slaughter storm story temple theme tion tradition Trojans Troy Turnus underworld Venus Vergilius victory Virgil Virgil's Aeneid Virgilian Volscian words wounded young