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 xvi
... beginning of Book 1. Most probably about three years before Horace's ode , in 26 B.C. , Propertius hauntingly as- serted that something greater than the Iliad was being born ( carmen 2.34.91- 92 ) , 15 After finishing the bulk of the ...
... beginning of Book 1. Most probably about three years before Horace's ode , in 26 B.C. , Propertius hauntingly as- serted that something greater than the Iliad was being born ( carmen 2.34.91- 92 ) , 15 After finishing the bulk of the ...
Page 206
... beginning of Book 3 of his Argonautica , which is devoted to Jason and Medea's love ) . The issue of Lavinia's marriage is a major one in the first stirrings of war in this book ( when Allecto visits Amata ) , and it will recur until ...
... beginning of Book 3 of his Argonautica , which is devoted to Jason and Medea's love ) . The issue of Lavinia's marriage is a major one in the first stirrings of war in this book ( when Allecto visits Amata ) , and it will recur until ...
Page 330
... beginning of Book 10 ) . Venulus is now able to give a complete report of the mission to Diomedes to the entire Latin leadership , as well as Turnus and his Rutulians . ' The recollection of the visit to Diomedes is a journey back in ...
... beginning of Book 10 ) . Venulus is now able to give a complete report of the mission to Diomedes to the entire Latin leadership , as well as Turnus and his Rutulians . ' The recollection of the visit to Diomedes is a journey back 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