Fathers and Sons in Virgil's Aeneid: Tum Genitor NatumIn this book, M. Owen Lee provides a comprehensive narrative summary of Virgil's Aeneid and a personal account of his experience with the epic poem. Noting that Virgil is the writer most Latinists read early, live with, and often come to love late, Lee expresses a clear devotion to the poet's work and relates how it has touched him throughout his life. While most criticism of the Aeneid makes a distinction between what critics say and what an individual may respond to, Lee takes a unique approach by analyzing the epic story from his own point of view. He not only explores the extensive Virgilian tradition, but also looks at the work of other poets, as well as philosophers, artists, composers, and filmmakers in order to better understand the Aeneid. Lee concludes that Virgil's poem, with its unavailing fathers and dutiful sons, its ineffably sad view of a failed humanity and a flawed universe, still touches hearts and, in ways Virgil could not have foreseen, still affects human lives. |
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... hero Turnus spies among the enemy the young Pallas , who only that day had come to fight for the Trojans , and who has shown himself the equal of his elders , with a warrior's taste for blood . Turnus calls his own men off . " Pallas is ...
... hero Turnus spies among the enemy the young Pallas , who only that day had come to fight for the Trojans , and who has shown himself the equal of his elders , with a warrior's taste for blood . Turnus calls his own men off . " Pallas is ...
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... hero - son that every man has his appointed day to die , that even gods have lost sons on the battlefield , that one ... hero's code , classically expressed in the Iliad by Sarpedon ( 12.322-8 ) . The advance of Turnus against Pallas ...
... hero - son that every man has his appointed day to die , that even gods have lost sons on the battlefield , that one ... hero's code , classically expressed in the Iliad by Sarpedon ( 12.322-8 ) . The advance of Turnus against Pallas ...
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... is the story of a hero who went to fulfill his destined role in history with his father on his shoulders and his son at his side , and whose eventual success , never reached in the compass of 6 Fathers and Sons in Virgil's Aeneid.
... is the story of a hero who went to fulfill his destined role in history with his father on his shoulders and his son at his side , and whose eventual success , never reached in the compass of 6 Fathers and Sons in Virgil's Aeneid.
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... hero mean when he calls himself pius ? what are we to think of the gods who intervene so constantly in the action ? The remarks in this section are an attempt to answer those questions in fairly general terms . There is nothing new here ...
... hero mean when he calls himself pius ? what are we to think of the gods who intervene so constantly in the action ? The remarks in this section are an attempt to answer those questions in fairly general terms . There is nothing new here ...
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Contents
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The Poem | 30 |
Some Further Considerations | 105 |
Homers Poems | 119 |
The Failure of Aeneas | 140 |
The Failure of Virgil | 157 |
The Undoing of Virgils Failure | 168 |
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