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 9
... theme of the early part of Book 1 has been that Aeneas and his Trojans do not seem to deserve their troubled fate . While this may be true , it is also a theme of the opening scenes of the Aeneid that one can take just pride in having ...
... theme of the early part of Book 1 has been that Aeneas and his Trojans do not seem to deserve their troubled fate . While this may be true , it is also a theme of the opening scenes of the Aeneid that one can take just pride in having ...
Page 81
... theme for Book 8 , where the shield of Aeneas offers a convenient device to allow for anachronistic embellishment . The Trojans travel to the northwest , hugging the coast , until they arrive at Buthrotum ( the modern uninhabited ...
... theme for Book 8 , where the shield of Aeneas offers a convenient device to allow for anachronistic embellishment . The Trojans travel to the northwest , hugging the coast , until they arrive at Buthrotum ( the modern uninhabited ...
Page 142
... theme to Roman mythology and history . Certainly for the imperial succession theme , such thoughts are fitting . Boxing is a fitting metaphor for the decline of men ; it was a deadly serious sport in Roman times , a contest of almost ...
... theme to Roman mythology and history . Certainly for the imperial succession theme , such thoughts are fitting . Boxing is a fitting metaphor for the decline of men ; it was a deadly serious sport in Roman times , a contest of almost ...
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