Reading Vergil's Aeneid : an interpretive guide
Vergil's Aeneid has been considered a classic, if not the classic, of Western literature for two thousand years. In recent decades this famous poem has become the subject of fresh and searching controversy. What is the poem's fundamental meaning? Does it endorse or undermine values of empire and patriarchy? Is its world view comic or tragic? Many studies of the poem have focused primarily on selected books. The approach here is comprehensive. An introduction by editor Christine Perkell discusses the poem's historical background, its reception from antiquity to the present, and its most important themes. The book-by-book readings that follow both explicate the text and offer a variety of interpretations
Aufsatzsammlung
vi, 353 pages ; 24 cm.
9780806131382, 9780806131399, 0806131381, 080613139X
40821009
Acknowledgments
Editor's introduction
Aeneid 1 : an epic programme / Christine Perkell
2. Dis aliter visum : self-telling and theodicy in Aeneid 2 / W.R. Johnson
3. Imitating Troy : a reading of Aeneid 3 / Ralph Hexter
4. Varium et mutabile : voices of authority in Aeneid 4 / Sarah Spence
5. Aeneid 5 : Poetry and parenthood / Joseph Farrell
Viewing the spectacula of Aeneid 6 / Eleanor Winsor Leach
The birth of war : a reading of Aeneid 7 / Sara Mack
8. Aeneid 8 : Images of Rome / Anthony J. Boyle
9. The man who was not there : Aeneas and absence in Aeneid 9 / Susan Ford Wiltshire
10. Epic violence, epic order : killings, catalogues, and the role of the reader in Aeneid 10 / Denis Feeney
11. Aeneid 11 : the saddest book / William S. Anderson
12. Aeneid 12 : Unity in closure / Michael C.J. Putnam
13. The Aeneid as foundation story / Gary B. Miles
14. The women of the Aeneid : vanishing bodies, lingering voices / S. Georgia Nugent
15. Vergil and Apollonius / Charles Rowan Beye
16. Five hundred years of rendering the Aeneid in English / William S. Anderson
Notes
Comprehensive bibliography
List of contributors