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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... tion commentary on Book 11 of the Aeneid in 2001-2002 . The late Professor Robert Carrubba directed that thesis with wisdom and erudition . Professors Harry Evans and George Shea offered valuable criticism and advice as first and second ...
... tion commentary on Book 11 of the Aeneid in 2001-2002 . The late Professor Robert Carrubba directed that thesis with wisdom and erudition . Professors Harry Evans and George Shea offered valuable criticism and advice as first and second ...
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... tion of several commentaries on Books 7-12.4 One can find a vast number of " schoolboy " editions of Aeneid 1-6 from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries , while comparatively few editions of the poem's second half were pre ...
... tion of several commentaries on Books 7-12.4 One can find a vast number of " schoolboy " editions of Aeneid 1-6 from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries , while comparatively few editions of the poem's second half were pre ...
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... tion that the second half of his magnum opus is the greater of its two parts . Virgil would perhaps feel that his deathbed wish for the whole thing to be burned is validated every time even advanced students of the original Latin ig ...
... tion that the second half of his magnum opus is the greater of its two parts . Virgil would perhaps feel that his deathbed wish for the whole thing to be burned is validated every time even advanced students of the original Latin ig ...
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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