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 xvii
... peace in Book 1 to the horror of the Aeneid's ending in Book 12. Augustus had certainly restored peace to Rome , though fears for the future ( both Augustus ' and beyond ) were understandable ; the end of the Aeneid does nothing to calm ...
... peace in Book 1 to the horror of the Aeneid's ending in Book 12. Augustus had certainly restored peace to Rome , though fears for the future ( both Augustus ' and beyond ) were understandable ; the end of the Aeneid does nothing to calm ...
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... Peace . Until his death in A.D. 14 , Rome would remain largely at peace , certainly free of the cycle of bloody civil war the preceding century had seen . For Virgil and the Romans of his day , there was , of course , no certainty that ...
... Peace . Until his death in A.D. 14 , Rome would remain largely at peace , certainly free of the cycle of bloody civil war the preceding century had seen . For Virgil and the Romans of his day , there was , of course , no certainty that ...
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... peace for some time ; it probably refers to Evander's Etruscans ( 7.426 Tyr- rhenas ) , whom Allecto soon names as Turnus ' first worthy target - Turnus will more than satisfy this first piece of hellish advice , when he kills Pallas ...
... peace for some time ; it probably refers to Evander's Etruscans ( 7.426 Tyr- rhenas ) , whom Allecto soon names as Turnus ' first worthy target - Turnus will more than satisfy this first piece of hellish advice , when he kills Pallas ...
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