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 258
... future - but who could not foresee what the future would hold . In this comparison Augustus has the more tragic lot of the two figures ; Aeneas might not understand the future , but at least he was ignorant of a future the audience ...
... future - but who could not foresee what the future would hold . In this comparison Augustus has the more tragic lot of the two figures ; Aeneas might not understand the future , but at least he was ignorant of a future the audience ...
Page 376
... future more precisely , and in league with Juno . Juno's rage will most defi- nitely serve the future ; while the audience was perhaps impatient for immediate single combat , Jupiter and Juno still have decisions to make that force a ...
... future more precisely , and in league with Juno . Juno's rage will most defi- nitely serve the future ; while the audience was perhaps impatient for immediate single combat , Jupiter and Juno still have decisions to make that force a ...
Page 391
... future , but he has significantly muddied the waters of that future , at least from the Tro- jan point of view . Jupiter could never have announced to Venus in Book 1 that the Teucrians would sink down . The agreement that Trojan dress ...
... future , but he has significantly muddied the waters of that future , at least from the Tro- jan point of view . Jupiter could never have announced to Venus in Book 1 that the Teucrians would sink down . The agreement that Trojan dress ...
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