Madness Unchained: A Reading of Virgil's AeneidMadness Unchained is a comprehensive introduction to and study of Virgil's Aeneid. The book moves through Virgil's epic scene by scene and offers a detailed explication of not only all the major (and many minor) difficulties of interpretation, but also provides a cohesive argument that explores Virgil's point in writing this epic of Roman mythology and Augustan propaganda: the role of fury or madness in Rome's national identity. There have been other books that have attempted to present a complete guide to the Aeneid, but this is the first to address every episode in the poem, omitting nothing, and aiming itself at an audience that ranges from the Advanced Placement Virgil student in secondary school to the professional Virgilian and everyone in-between, both Latinists and the Latin-less. Individual chapters correspond to the books of the poem; unlike some volumes that prejudice the reader's interpretation of the work by rearranging the order of episodes in order to influence their impact on the audience, this book moves in the order Virgil intended, and also gives rather fuller exposition to the second half of the poem, Virgil's self-proclaimed 'greater work' (maius opus). |
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Page xi
... poem to his winning of Lavinia fiom Tumus. 2.433 Mynors vitavisse vices Danaum for vitavisse vices, Danaum: Hirtzel takes Danaum with manu, Mynors with vices (probably better), though it is attractive to take the genitive with manu ...
... poem to his winning of Lavinia fiom Tumus. 2.433 Mynors vitavisse vices Danaum for vitavisse vices, Danaum: Hirtzel takes Danaum with manu, Mynors with vices (probably better), though it is attractive to take the genitive with manu ...
Page xiii
... poem of war . I disregarded his advice during the Christmas season of 1995-1996 , and read one book of the poem a day as a sort of Virgilian twelve days of Christmas , and I have repeated that nativity tradition yearly ever since.2 ...
... poem of war . I disregarded his advice during the Christmas season of 1995-1996 , and read one book of the poem a day as a sort of Virgilian twelve days of Christmas , and I have repeated that nativity tradition yearly ever since.2 ...
Page xiv
... poem ignores or virtually ignores the entire second 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 ...
... poem ignores or virtually ignores the entire second 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 ...
Page xvi
... poem will arrive at heartfelt conclusions about the ambi- guities , vagaries , perplexities , and outright paradoxes the poem offers its readers ( and listeners ! ) . Once we have decided to disobey Virgil and set out to read his epic ...
... poem will arrive at heartfelt conclusions about the ambi- guities , vagaries , perplexities , and outright paradoxes the poem offers its readers ( and listeners ! ) . Once we have decided to disobey Virgil and set out to read his epic ...
Page xvii
... poem's proem will come to terrible fruition in the indicative condit , the “ founding " act of murder that concludes the epic . In the middle of the poem , during Aeneas ' education in the underworld , we shall learn that the Augustus ...
... poem's proem will come to terrible fruition in the indicative condit , the “ founding " act of murder that concludes the epic . In the middle of the poem , during Aeneas ' education in the underworld , we shall learn that the Augustus ...
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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