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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... opening two words ( which set the theme for the entire epic ) to the opening two words of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey . The Odyssey opens with clear reference to the resourceful Greek hero who reached his home in Ithaca after an absence ...
... opening two words ( which set the theme for the entire epic ) to the opening two words of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey . The Odyssey opens with clear reference to the resourceful Greek hero who reached his home in Ithaca after an absence ...
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... opening of the Iliad blames Apollo ( a sun god ) for the anger that erupts between Achilles and Agamemnon . The opening of the Odyssey , somewhat in parallel , mentions the sun god Helios ; Odysseus made it home to Greece , but he did ...
... opening of the Iliad blames Apollo ( a sun god ) for the anger that erupts between Achilles and Agamemnon . The opening of the Odyssey , somewhat in parallel , mentions the sun god Helios ; Odysseus made it home to Greece , but he did ...
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... opening of the Ilias Parva ) , but the Aeneid's clear binary structure most directly responds to Homer's Iliad and Odyssey , which open with imperatives addressed to the Muse , not first person declarations by the poet . The " Little ...
... opening of the Ilias Parva ) , but the Aeneid's clear binary structure most directly responds to Homer's Iliad and Odyssey , which open with imperatives addressed to the Muse , not first person declarations by the poet . The " Little ...
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