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 42
... scene was a highly popular theme for the visual arts in antiquity , and Virgil's descrip- tion is more than probably inspired by something he saw ; we may again con- sider the continuation Aeneas is offering to the scenes he saw painted ...
... scene was a highly popular theme for the visual arts in antiquity , and Virgil's descrip- tion is more than probably inspired by something he saw ; we may again con- sider the continuation Aeneas is offering to the scenes he saw painted ...
Page 54
... scene . He is not only the living embodiment of fire , but also the mortal incarna- tion of the sea serpents that had traveled from Tenedos at Minerva's behest to slay Laocoon . The simile's emphasis is on the coming into battle of ...
... scene . He is not only the living embodiment of fire , but also the mortal incarna- tion of the sea serpents that had traveled from Tenedos at Minerva's behest to slay Laocoon . The simile's emphasis is on the coming into battle of ...
Page 137
... scene of Ganymede's abduction by the eagle of Jupiter . The scene is depicted in some detail . " We see Ganymede hunt- ing deer on leafy Mount Ida . Virgil says that this is the Ganymede who was snatched by Jove's armor - bearer , the ...
... scene of Ganymede's abduction by the eagle of Jupiter . The scene is depicted in some detail . " We see Ganymede hunt- ing deer on leafy Mount Ida . Virgil says that this is the Ganymede who was snatched by Jove's armor - bearer , the ...
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