Eros and Death in the Aeneid
Title | Eros and Death in the Aeneid PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Gillis |
Publisher | L'Erma di Bretschneider |
Pages | 176 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN |
Aeneid
Title | Aeneid PDF eBook |
Author | Virgil |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 532 |
Release | 2007-10 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 019151778X |
Arms and the man I sing of Troy ... 'So begins one of the greatest works of literature in any language. Written by the Roman poet Virgil more than two thousand years ago, the story of Aeneas' seven-year journey from the ruins of Troy to Italy, where he becomes the founding ancestor of Rome, is a narrative on an epic scale: Aeneas and his companions contend not only with human enemies but with the whim of the gods. His destiny preordained by Jupiter, Aeneas is nevertheless assailed by dangers invoked by the goddess Juno, and by thetorments of love, loyalty, and despair. Virgil's supreme achieveme.
The Aeneid
Title | The Aeneid PDF eBook |
Author | Virgil |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 504 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 9780670038039 |
Recounts the adventures of the Trojan prince Aeneas, who helped found Rome, after the fall of Troy.
Vergil's Aeneid and the Roman Self
Title | Vergil's Aeneid and the Roman Self PDF eBook |
Author | Yasmin Syed |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Pages | 298 |
Release | 2022-11-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0472039164 |
Reading the Aeneid as the central text of Roman literary education, Yasmin Syed investigates the poem's power to shape Roman notions of self and cultural identity
The Primacy of Vision in Virgil's Aeneid
Title | The Primacy of Vision in Virgil's Aeneid PDF eBook |
Author | Riggs Alden Smith |
Publisher | University of Texas Press |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2013-09-13 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0292756208 |
One of the masterpieces of Latin and, indeed, world literature, Virgil's Aeneid was written during the Augustan "renaissance" of architecture, art, and literature that redefined the Roman world in the early years of the empire. This period was marked by a transition from the use of rhetoric as a means of public persuasion to the use of images to display imperial power. Taking a fresh approach to Virgil's epic poem, Riggs Alden Smith argues that the Aeneid fundamentally participates in the Augustan shift from rhetoric to imagery because it gives primacy to vision over speech as the principal means of gathering and conveying information as it recounts the heroic adventures of Aeneas, the legendary founder of Rome. Working from the theories of French phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Smith characterizes Aeneas as a voyant-visible, a person who both sees and is seen and who approaches the world through the faculty of vision. Engaging in close readings of key episodes throughout the poem, Smith shows how Aeneas repeatedly acts on what he sees rather than what he hears. Smith views Aeneas' final act of slaying Turnus, a character associated with the power of oratory, as the victory of vision over rhetoric, a triumph that reflects the ascendancy of visual symbols within Augustan society. Smith's new interpretation of the predominance of vision in the Aeneid makes it plain that Virgil's epic contributes to a new visual culture and a new mythology of Imperial Rome.
Homo Viator
Title | Homo Viator PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Whitby |
Publisher | Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers |
Pages | 348 |
Release | 1987-01-01 |
Genre | Classical literature |
ISBN | 9780862922955 |
Virgil Recomposed
Title | Virgil Recomposed PDF eBook |
Author | Scott McGill |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2005-07-28 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0198039107 |
The Virgilian centos anticipate the avant-garde and smash the image of a staid, sober, and centered classical world. This book examines the twelve mythological and secular Virgilian centos that survive from antiquity. The centos, in which authors take non-consecutive lines or segments of lines from the Eclogues, Georgics, and Aeneid and reconnect them to produce new poems, have received limited attention. No other book-length study exists of all the centos, which date from ca. 200 to ca. 530. The centos are literary games, and they have a playful shock value that feels very modern. Yet the texts also demand to be taken seriously for what they disclose about late antique literary culture, Virgil's reception, and several important topics in Latin literature and literary studies generally. As radically intertextual works, the centos are particularly valuable sites for pursuing inquiry into allusion. Scrutinizing the peculiarities of the texts' allusive engagements with Virgil requires clarification of the roles of the author and the reader in allusion, the criteria for determining what constitutes an allusion, and the different functions allusion can have. By investigating the centos from these different perspectives and asking what they reveal about a wide range of weighty subjects, this book comes into dialogue with major topics and studies in Latin literature.