Reading Vergil's Aeneid
Reading Vergil's Aeneid

Author: Christine G. Perkell

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 9780806131399

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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. Concluding topic chapters focus on the Aeneid as foundation story, the influence of Apollonius' Argonautica, the poem's female figures, and English translations of the Aeneid. Written in an accessible style and providing translations of all Latin passages, this volume will be of particular value to teachers and students of humanities courses as well as to specialists.

Reading Virgil and His Texts
Reading Virgil and His Texts

Author: Richard F. Thomas

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 9780472108978

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Dynamic textual interplay: inherent and inherited

Virgil, a Study in Civilized Poetry
Virgil, a Study in Civilized Poetry

Author: Brooks Otis

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 460

ISBN-13: 9780806127828

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In this classic study, Brooks Otis presents Virgil as a radically different poet from any of his Greek or Roman predecessors. Virgil molded the ancient epic tradition to his own Roman contemporary aims and succeeded in making mythical and legendary figures meaningful to a sophisticated, unmythical age. Otis begins and ends his study with the Aeneid and includes chapters on the Bucolics and the Georgics. A new foreword by Ward W. Briggs, Jr., places Otis’s groundbreaking achievement in the context of past and present Virgilian scholarship.

Virgil's Experience
Virgil's Experience

Author: Richard Jenkyns

Publisher: Clarendon Press

Published: 1998-11-26

Total Pages: 729

ISBN-13: 019158455X

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This book studies Virgil's ideas of nature, history, sense of nation, and sense of identity. It is exact and patient in its probing for nuance and detail, but also bold, wide, and original in its scope. It combines the study of Virgil with the study of attitudes to nature throughout antiquity. Blending literature with history, and in the case of Lucretius, philosophy, it offers a vision and an interpretation of the culture of the 1st century BC as a whole. It argues that Lucretius and Virgil affected a revolution in Western sensibility; claiming that a book about poetry should be a book about life, it combines scholarship and precision with a sense of the importance of literature and its capacity to enhance our understanding of our past and of ourselves.

Darkness Visible
Darkness Visible

Author: W.R. Johnson

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2015-01-20

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 022625237X

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One of the best books ever written on one of humanity’s greatest epics, W. R. Johnson’s classic study of Vergil’s Aeneid challenges centuries of received wisdom. Johnson rejects the political and historical reading of the epic as a record of the glorious prehistory of Rome and instead foregrounds Vergil’s enigmatic style and questioning of the heroic myths. With an approach to the text that is both grounded in scholarship and intensely personal, and in a style both rhetorically elegant and passionate, Johnson offers readings of specific passages that are nuanced and suggestive as he focuses on the “somber and nourishing fictions” in Vergil’s poem. A timeless work of scholarship, Darkness Visible will enthrall classicists as well as students and scholars of the history of criticism—specifically the way in which politics influence modern readings of the classics—and of poetry and literature.

Why Vergil?
Why Vergil?

Author: Stephanie Quinn

Publisher: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers

Published: 2000-09-01

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 1610411943

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Why Vergil? is a collection of forty-three exemplary, classic pieces that demonstrate Vergil's genius or illustrate his enduring influence: a veritable feast for Vergilian scholars, students, and humanists.

Madness Unchained
Madness Unchained

Author: Lee Fratantuono

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 9780739122426

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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 Italian origins.

Aeneid
Aeneid

Author: Virgil

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2012-03-12

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 0486113973

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Monumental epic poem tells the heroic story of Aeneas, a Trojan who escaped the burning ruins of Troy to found Lavinium, the parent city of Rome, in the west.

On Poetry and Poets
On Poetry and Poets

Author: T. S. Eliot

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2009-07-07

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 0374531978

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T. S. Eliot was not only one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century—he was also one of the most acute writers on his craft. In On Poetry and Poets, which was first published in 1957, Eliot explores the different forms and purposes of poetry in essays such as "The Three Voices of Poetry," "Poetry and Drama," and "What Is Minor Poetry?" as well as the works of individual poets, including Virgil, Milton, Byron, Goethe, and Yeats. As he writes in "The Music of Poetry," "We must expect a time to come when poetry will have again to be recalled to speech. The same problems arise, and always in new forms; and poetry has always before it . . . an ‘endless adventure.'"

Aeneid Book 1
Aeneid Book 1

Author: P Vergilius Maro

Publisher:

Published: 2020-12-20

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13:

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These books are intended to make Virgil's Latin accessible even to those with a fairly rudimentary knowledge of the language. There is a departure here from the format of the electronic books, with short sections generally being presented on single, or double, pages and endnotes entirely avoided. A limited number of additional footnotes is included, but only what is felt necessary for a basic understanding of the story and the grammar. Some more detailed footnotes have been taken from Conington's edition of the Aeneid.