Madness unchained : a reading of Virgil's Aeneid
The 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 Italia
1 online resource (xix, 427 p.)
9780739157411, 0739157418
1051650599
Print version:
Arms and the man
All fell silent
After it seemed best
But the queen
Meanwhile sure Aeneas
So he spoke, weeping
You also, dying
As Turnus raised
And while these things
The House of Olympus
Dawn left the ocean
As Turnus sees
Electronic reproduction, [S.l.], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
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