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 87
... Italy is sighted ( 3.528-529 ) . In the tradition , Anchises did not live to see the Italian coast . Virgil has granted him that wish , just as Helenus had intimated ( Ecce tibi Ausoniae tellus ) . Virgil also wishes to save Anchises ...
... Italy is sighted ( 3.528-529 ) . In the tradition , Anchises did not live to see the Italian coast . Virgil has granted him that wish , just as Helenus had intimated ( Ecce tibi Ausoniae tellus ) . Virgil also wishes to save Anchises ...
Page 226
... Italian force ) several re- gions in central Italy : the Argive youth are Turnus ' own men from Ardea ( though their title , Argivaque pubes , reminds us that Aeneas is once again fight- ing Greeks ) . Circe's ridge is mentioned again ...
... Italian force ) several re- gions in central Italy : the Argive youth are Turnus ' own men from Ardea ( though their title , Argivaque pubes , reminds us that Aeneas is once again fight- ing Greeks ) . Circe's ridge is mentioned again ...
Page 236
... Italy comes from the false etymo- logical connection between the Palatine Hill of Rome and Pallanteum , a town in ... Italian side ( Vir- bius already , and , we learn later , Camilla herself ) . All of this lore fits in well with the ...
... Italy comes from the false etymo- logical connection between the Palatine Hill of Rome and Pallanteum , a town in ... Italian side ( Vir- bius already , and , we learn later , Camilla herself ) . All of this lore fits in well with the ...
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