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 177
... body's location . Palinurus ' body is at Velia in Sicily ; he begs Aeneas most powerfully ( by Anchises and Iulus ) that he be granted burial . This is , in a remote foreshadowing , a prefiguring of both Mezentius and Turnus and their ...
... body's location . Palinurus ' body is at Velia in Sicily ; he begs Aeneas most powerfully ( by Anchises and Iulus ) that he be granted burial . This is , in a remote foreshadowing , a prefiguring of both Mezentius and Turnus and their ...
Page 187
... bodies and be the future glory of Italy ; Anchises wants his son to be able to rejoice ( 6.718 laetere ) to- gether with him ( a scene that will never occur ) . Aeneas does not understand how anyone could want to return to a body after ...
... bodies and be the future glory of Italy ; Anchises wants his son to be able to rejoice ( 6.718 laetere ) to- gether with him ( a scene that will never occur ) . Aeneas does not understand how anyone could want to return to a body after ...
Page 188
... body , we now find out what fates await some souls after death : purgatorial exercises . The general tone of the dis- cussion of the body has been negative ; the body has been called a blind prison and compared to darkness ( 6.734 ...
... body , we now find out what fates await some souls after death : purgatorial exercises . The general tone of the dis- cussion of the body has been negative ; the body has been called a blind prison and compared to darkness ( 6.734 ...
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