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 164
... underworld . The shores of Cumae are called " Euboean " ( 6.2 ) because a colony from Chalcis on Euboea had been founded there sometime in the eighth century B.C. The ominous asso- ciation of the region with the realm of the dead ...
... underworld . The shores of Cumae are called " Euboean " ( 6.2 ) because a colony from Chalcis on Euboea had been founded there sometime in the eighth century B.C. The ominous asso- ciation of the region with the realm of the dead ...
Page 197
... underworld of mytho- logical lore to the underworld of those more hopeful philosophers who envis- aged some sort of fate after death besides the gloomy underworld home that Achilles lamented to Odysseus was worse than the life of some ...
... underworld of mytho- logical lore to the underworld of those more hopeful philosophers who envis- aged some sort of fate after death besides the gloomy underworld home that Achilles lamented to Odysseus was worse than the life of some ...
Page 253
... underworld with Catiline and Cato are at the bottom ; Augustus ' victory at Actium is in the middle . The underworld pictures are a reminiscence of Anchises ' revelation in Elysium at the end of Book 6. Like Anchises , Cato is in ...
... underworld with Catiline and Cato are at the bottom ; Augustus ' victory at Actium is in the middle . The underworld pictures are a reminiscence of Anchises ' revelation in Elysium at the end of Book 6. Like Anchises , Cato is in ...
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