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 287
... attack with sudden violence ) . Two more times , in fact , he drives off his pursuers and they flee , confused , before his presence . The Trojans are preparing to attack him en masse , and , at this crucial moment , we are told that ...
... attack with sudden violence ) . Two more times , in fact , he drives off his pursuers and they flee , confused , before his presence . The Trojans are preparing to attack him en masse , and , at this crucial moment , we are told that ...
Page 300
... attack- ing the rustic ( 310 agrestis ) Latins , and the first casualty is Theron ( the " Hunter " in Greek ) , a continuation of the poem's theme of the coming of ( urban ) civiliza- tion to a primitive , rural Italy . Virgil ...
... attack- ing the rustic ( 310 agrestis ) Latins , and the first casualty is Theron ( the " Hunter " in Greek ) , a continuation of the poem's theme of the coming of ( urban ) civiliza- tion to a primitive , rural Italy . Virgil ...
Page 381
... attack the Latin capital . The idea is born out of frustration ; the slaughter is equal , and Juturna is driving Turnus ' chariot fast enough and far enough away to keep her brother from Aeneas ' spear . Venus may be " most beautiful ...
... attack the Latin capital . The idea is born out of frustration ; the slaughter is equal , and Juturna is driving Turnus ' chariot fast enough and far enough away to keep her brother from Aeneas ' spear . Venus may be " most beautiful ...
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