The Primacy of Vision in Virgil's AeneidA fresh look at one of the masterpieces of Latin literature and how it contributes to a new visual culture and a new mythology of imperial Rome. |
Contents
Prophaenomena ad Vergilium | 1 |
Ruse and Revelation Visions of the Divine and the Telos of Narrative | 24 |
Vision Past and Future | 60 |
Hic amor Love Vision and Destiny | 97 |
Vidi Vici Visions Victory and the Telos of Narrative | 128 |
Conclusion Ante ora parentum | 176 |
Notes | 183 |
Bibliography | 223 |
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Common terms and phrases
action Aeneas allusion Anchises appearance aspect associated attention Augustan Augustus battle begins behold Book bring Cacus calls cause character clearly close comparable connection consider contrast Creusa darkness death describes Diana Dido Dido’s discussion divine Drances effect embassy emphasizes encounter Epic Evander example explains eyes face fail father final first follows Forum Further future gaze gives gods hand Hector Hercules hero Homeric Iliad images important Italy king land Latin light lines look means memory mother narrative notes occurs offers once opening Oxford Pallas passage past Penates person poem poem’s Porta Carmentalis present Putnam reference relationship response rhetoric Roman Rome scene seek seems seen Servius shows sight situation speak speech suggests symbolic temple tion translation Trojan Troy true Turnus Venus verb Virgil Virgil’s Aeneid visible vision visual voyant-visible
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Primacy of Vision in Virgil's Aeneid |
| Author | Alden Smith |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | University of Texas Press, 2005 |
| ISBN | 029270657X, 9780292706576 |
| Length | 253 pages |
| Subjects | › Literary Criticism / Ancient & Classical |
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