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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... half ; even Henry's enormous Aeneidea begins to show fatigue with the poem's second half , certainly by Book 9. Besides the odd phenome- non of not finishing the poems one starts , this neglect of the second half of the Aeneid is at ...
... half ; even Henry's enormous Aeneidea begins to show fatigue with the poem's second half , certainly by Book 9. Besides the odd phenome- non of not finishing the poems one starts , this neglect of the second half of the Aeneid is at ...
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... half of the poem is Virgil's Odyssey , then the second half is his Iliad , and Virgil himself will announce in Book 7 that the second half is greater than the first . If the first half of the poem is about the man Aeneas , who like the ...
... half of the poem is Virgil's Odyssey , then the second half is his Iliad , and Virgil himself will announce in Book 7 that the second half is greater than the first . If the first half of the poem is about the man Aeneas , who like the ...
Page 207
... half of the poem is not so much concerned with the just reward of labors as with the fulfillment of worse horrors : war and more war in the new homeland . We have observed that the first half of the Aeneid is modeled on Homer's Odyssey ...
... half of the poem is not so much concerned with the just reward of labors as with the fulfillment of worse horrors : war and more war in the new homeland . We have observed that the first half of the Aeneid is modeled on Homer's Odyssey ...
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