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 175
... land from the deep sea , when the frigid year drives them across the waters and sends them to sunny lands . Winter imagery surrounded the mistletoe - like Golden Bough ; now winter joins late autumn ( autumn in its first chill ) as an ...
... land from the deep sea , when the frigid year drives them across the waters and sends them to sunny lands . Winter imagery surrounded the mistletoe - like Golden Bough ; now winter joins late autumn ( autumn in its first chill ) as an ...
Page 190
... land lies behind the stars , beyond the paths of the year and the sun , where sky - bearing Atlas turns the vault fixed with burning stars on his shoulder ) : at whose coming already now do the Caspian kingdoms shudder at the responses ...
... land lies behind the stars , beyond the paths of the year and the sun , where sky - bearing Atlas turns the vault fixed with burning stars on his shoulder ) : at whose coming already now do the Caspian kingdoms shudder at the responses ...
Page 394
... land . With the unification of Trojans and Italians , the removal of this huge stone signifies the end of division ; such a stone could never be used by an Italian to kill a Trojan , or to mark where Trojan land started and Italian land ...
... land . With the unification of Trojans and Italians , the removal of this huge stone signifies the end of division ; such a stone could never be used by an Italian to kill a Trojan , or to mark where Trojan land started and Italian land ...
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