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 122
... gods have somehow precipitated it . From a human point of view , the emo- tional behavior of both Dido and Aeneas is understandable ; from the Roman point of view , the delays and mood changes of mortals are becoming tedious and ...
... gods have somehow precipitated it . From a human point of view , the emo- tional behavior of both Dido and Aeneas is understandable ; from the Roman point of view , the delays and mood changes of mortals are becoming tedious and ...
Page 221
... gods to witness that he has been broken by " fate " ( fatis ) —just as Virgil him- self had first noted that the Italians in Latinus ' palace were calling for a war that was " opposed to the fates of the gods " ( 584 contra fata deum ) ...
... gods to witness that he has been broken by " fate " ( fatis ) —just as Virgil him- self had first noted that the Italians in Latinus ' palace were calling for a war that was " opposed to the fates of the gods " ( 584 contra fata deum ) ...
Page 269
... gods have interfered again and again in the war and that he has no chance , and to the end he will declare that he does not fear Aeneas , only the gods ( especially Jupi- ter , his enemy ) . Turnus seems to think that it is his fate to ...
... gods have interfered again and again in the war and that he has no chance , and to the end he will declare that he does not fear Aeneas , only the gods ( especially Jupi- ter , his enemy ) . Turnus seems to think that it is his fate to ...
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