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.

The Roman Vergil and the Origins of Medieval Book Design
The Roman Vergil and the Origins of Medieval Book Design

Author: David Herndon Wright

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2001-01-01

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 0802048196

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The 5th century AD Roman Vergil is one of the most precious manuscripts in the Vatican Library. Wright presents a wide-ranging discussion of the influence of the manuscript on the history and development of medieval manuscript art and of book design.

Vergil's Aeneid
Vergil's Aeneid

Author: Barbara Weiden Boyd

Publisher: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13: 086516584X

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Vergil's Empire
Vergil's Empire

Author: Eve Adler

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Published: 2004-09-01

Total Pages: 367

ISBN-13: 0585455090

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In Vergil's Empire, Eve Adler offers an exciting new interpretation of the political thought of Vergil's Aeneid. Adler argues that in this epic poem, Vergil presents the theoretical foundations of a new political order, one that resolves the conflict between scientific enlightenment and ancestral religion that permeated the ancient world. The work concentrates on Vergil's response to the physics, psychology, and political implications of Lucretius' Epicurean doctrine expressed in De Rerum Natura. Proceeding by a close analysis of the Aeneid, Adler examines Vergil's critique of Carthage as a model of universal enlightenment, his positive doctrine of Rome as a model of universal religion, and his criticism of the heroism of Achilles, Odysseus, and Epicurus in favor of the heroism of Aeneas. Beautifully written and clearly argued, Vergil's Empire will be of great value to all interested in the classical world.

Vergil's Aeneid
Vergil's Aeneid

Author: Virgil

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 1963-01-22

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9780253200457

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"This translation with its admirable projection of the various moods throughout the poem can be recommended to both classicist and non-classicist." --The Classical World "Of all the editions of the Aeneid in English, this] volume should be of special interest to the teacher--as well as to the student." --The Classical Outlook

Language in Vergil's Eclogues
Language in Vergil's Eclogues

Author: Michael Lipka

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2013-02-06

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 3110888432

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In der 1968 gegründeten Reihe erscheinen Monographien aus den Gebieten der Griechischen und Lateinischen Philologie sowie der Alten Geschichte. Die Bände weisen eine große Vielzahl von Themen auf: neben sprachlichen, textkritischen oder gattungsgeschichtlichen philologischen Untersuchungen stehen sozial-, politik-, finanz- und kulturgeschichtliche Arbeiten aus der Klassischen Antike und der Spätantike. Entscheidend für die Aufnahme ist die Qualität einer Arbeit; besonderen Wert legen die Herausgeber auf eine umfassende Heranziehung der einschlägigen Texte und Quellen und deren sorgfältige kritische Auswertung.

Vergil's agricultural Golden Age
Vergil's agricultural Golden Age

Author: P.A. Johnston

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-08-14

Total Pages: 153

ISBN-13: 9004327789

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Preliminary Material /Patricia A. Johnston -- Introduction /Patricia A. Johnston -- The Chronological Context of the Golden Age /Patricia A. Johnston -- The Metallic Myth Before Vergil /Patricia A. Johnston -- Vergil and The Metallic Myth /Patricia A. Johnston -- Saturnus and the Agricultural Golden Age /Patricia A. Johnston -- Vergil's Bees: A Prophecy Fulfilled /Patricia A. Johnston -- Aristaeus the Farmer versus Orpheus the Nomad /Patricia A. Johnston -- The Healing Art of Apollo /Patricia A. Johnston -- Bibliography /Patricia A. Johnston -- Index of Subjects /Patricia A. Johnston -- Index of Passages Cited /Patricia A. Johnston.

Vergil's Aeneid
Vergil's Aeneid

Author: Hans-Peter Stahl

Publisher: Classical Press of Wales

Published: 2009-12-31

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 1910589306

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This title features a collection of 14 papers in which contributors use diverging critical methods on a selection of extracts from Vergil's epic, with the examination of political references in the work being prominent, as well as the question of the Aeneid's central meaning. Contents include: Vergil announcing the Aeneid. On Geo. 3.1-48 (Egil Kraggerud); The Peopling of the Underworld (Anton Powell); Vergil as a Republican (Eckard Lefevre); The Sword-Belt of Pallas: Moral Symbolism and Political Ideology (Stephen Harrison); The Isolation of Turnus (Richard F. Thomas) and The End and the Meaning (David West)

A Companion to Vergil's Aeneid and its Tradition
A Companion to Vergil's Aeneid and its Tradition

Author: Joseph Farrell

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2014-01-28

Total Pages: 605

ISBN-13: 1118785126

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A Companion to Vergil’s Aeneid and its Tradition presents a collection of original interpretive essays that represent an innovative addition to the body of Vergil scholarship. Provides fresh approaches to traditional Vergil scholarship and new insights into unfamiliar aspects of Vergil's textual history Features contributions by an international team of the most distinguished scholars Represents a distinctively original approach to Vergil scholarship