Elegiac Love And Death In Vergil S Aeneid

Author : Sarah L. McCallum
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780192863003

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Elegiac Love and Death in Vergil's Aeneid by Sarah L. McCallum Pdf

Elegiac Love and Death in Vergil's 'Aeneid' poses new questions about Vergil's pervasive engagement with elegy, both amatory and funerary, throughout his final epic endeavor. A foundational discussion of elegiac experimentation in the Eclogues, Georgics, and Aeneid 1-6 explores the aesthetic and conceptual development of destructive Vergilian amor (passion). The unique emphasis of subsequent chapters on the amatory and funerary elegiac dimensions of crucial episodes in Aeneid 7-12 illuminates the intergeneric character of Vergil's martial maius opus. A detailed examination of the inter- and intratextual strands of pivotal moments in the Aeneid evinces Vergil's intense engagement with literary predecessors and contemporaries, his evolving artistic vision, and his enduring influence on subsequent Roman poets. Each chapter of this volume enhances our understanding of the generic complexity of the Aeneid, presenting revisionary readings of key episodes and transformative interpretations of its main characters.

Author : Steven Farron
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9004096612

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Vergil's Aeneid by Steven Farron Pdf

This book argues that the "Aeneid"'s main purpose is to present a series of emotionally gripping episodes, not to praise Aeneas and his mission, criticize them or express "two voices" concerning them. Furthermore this approach explains what happens in the "Aeneid" better than the assumption that its purpose is to propound a message, that is how it was usually regarded into the nineteenth century and that is what the ancient Greek and Romans regarded as the primary purpose of literature.

Author : S. Farron
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004329188

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Vergil's Aeneid by S. Farron Pdf

For more than a century, critics of the Aeneid have assumed that all or most of its episodes must propound something about Aeneas and his mission to found the Roman people, and through them about Rome and Augustus; whether that is their positive aspects, or their brutality and destructiveness, or the contrast between the public "voice" of their achievements and the private "voice" of the suffering they cause. This book argues that this assumption is wrong; the Aeneid's main purpose was to present a series of emotionally moving episodes, especially pathetic ones. This book shows that the Aeneid makes more sense when regarded primarily as a series of emotion-arousing episodes than as expressing a pro-Aeneas, anti-Aeneas or two voices message. That is how it was regarded into the nineteenth century and that is what the ancient Greeks and Romans assumed was the main purpose of literature.

Author : Alison Keith,Micah Y. Myers
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487547967

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Vergil and Elegy by Alison Keith,Micah Y. Myers Pdf

Born in 70 BCE, the Roman poet Vergil came of age during a period of literary experimentalism among Latin authors. These authors introduced new Greek verse forms and metres into the existing repertoire of Latin poetic genres and measures, foremost among them being elegy, a genre that the ancients thought originated in funeral lament, but which in classical Rome became first-person poetry about the poet-lover’s amatory vicissitudes. Despite the influence of notable elegists on Vergil’s early poetry, his critics have rarely paid attention to his engagement with the genre across his body of work. This collection is devoted to an exploration of Vergil’s multifaceted relations with elegy. Contributors shed light on Vergil’s interactions with the genre and its practitioners across classical, medieval, and early modern periods. The book investigates Vergil’s hexameter poetry in relation to contemporary Latin elegy by Gallus, Tibullus, and Propertius, and the subsequent reception of Vergil’s radical combination of epic with elegy by later Latin and Italian authors. Filling a striking gap in the scholarship, Vergil and Elegy illuminates the famous poet’s wide-ranging engagement with the genre of elegy across his oeuvre.

Author : James J. O'Hara
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400860876

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Death and the Optimistic Prophecy in Vergil's AENEID by James J. O'Hara Pdf

Here James O'Hara shows how the deceptive nature of prophecy in the Aeneid complicates assessment of the poem's attitude toward its hero's achievement and toward the future of Rome under Augustus Caesar. This close study of the language and rhetorical context of the prophecies reveals that they regularly suppress discouraging material: the gods send promising messages to Aeneas and others to spur them on in their struggles, but these struggles often lead to untimely deaths or other disasters only darkly hinted at by the prophecies. O'Hara finds in these prophecies a persistent subtext that both stresses the human cost of Aeneas' mission and casts doubt on Jupiter's promise to Venus of an "endless empire" for the Romans. O'Hara considers the major prophecies that look confidently toward Augustus' Rome from the standpoint of Vergil's readers, who, like the characters within the poem, must struggle with the possibility that the optimism of the prophecies of Rome is undercut by darker material partially suppressed. The study shows that Vergil links the deception of his characters to the deceptiveness of Roman oratory, politics, and religion, and to the artifice of poetry itself. In response to recent debates about whether the Aeneid is optimistic or pessimistic, O'Hara argues that Vergil expresses both the Romans' hope for the peace of a Golden Age under Augustus and their fear that this hope might be illusory. Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Vergil
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780300240108

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The Aeneid by Vergil Pdf

This is a substantial revision of Sarah Ruden's celebrated 2008 translation of Vergil's Aeneid, which was acclaimed by Garry Wills as "the first translation since Dryden's that can be read as a great English poem in itself." Ruden's line-for-line translation in iambic pentameter is an astonishing feat, unique among modern translations. Her revisions to the translation render the poetry more spare and muscular than her previous version and capture even more closely the essence of Vergil's poem, which pits national destiny against the fates of individuals, and which resonates deeply in our own time.00This distinguished translation, now equipped with introduction, notes, and glossary by leading Vergil scholar Susanna Braund, allows modern readers to experience for themselves the timeless power of Vergil's masterpiece.

Author : Virgil
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1990-06-16
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780679729525

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The Aeneid by Virgil Pdf

"Fitzgerald's [translation] is so decisively the best modern Aeneid that it is unthinkable that anyone will want to use any other version for a long time to come." —New York Review of Books Virgil's great epic transforms the Homeric tradition into a triumphal statement of the Roman civilizing mission—translated by Robert Fitzgerald.

Author : Marco Fantuzzi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780199603626

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Achilles in Love by Marco Fantuzzi Pdf

Tracing the escapades of Achilles' erotic history - whether in same-sex or opposite-sex relationships - this book explains how these relationships were developed and revealed, or elided and concealed, in the writing and visual arts following Homer.

Author : Daniel Gillis
Publisher : L'Erma di Bretschneider
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UCSC:32106008322296

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Eros and Death in the Aeneid by Daniel Gillis Pdf

Author : Virgil
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781853997167

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Virgil: Aeneid I by Virgil Pdf

In Book I of the "Aeneid", Aeneas is shipwrecked on the coast of North Africa, near where the Phoenician queen Dido is building a city that will become Carthage. Aeneas and Dido meet. Their doomed love is set against Aeneas' destiny as founding father of Rome. Edited by Keith Maclennan, this volume makes Virgil's work more accessible to today's students, by setting it in its literary and historical context and taking account of the most recent scholarship and critical approaches to Virgil. The edition includes a full introduction which covers Virgil's life and writings, his literary predecessors, a summary of the epic poem's plot, an exploration of Rome, Carthage and Dido's role, explanation of the metre, and some notes on translating and reading the poem. As well as the introduction, the volume contains the original Latin text, in-depth annotation to explain language and content, a glossary and a comprehensive vocabulary list.

Author : Virgil
Publisher : Berkeley : University of California Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Aeneas (Legendary character)
ISBN : UOM:39015047471878

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The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil Pdf

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) In dramatic and narrative power, Virgil's "Aeneid" is the equal of its great Homeric predecessors, "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey." It surpasses them, however, in the intense sympathy it displays for its human actors-a sympathy that makes events such as Aeneas's escape from Troy and search for a new homeland, the passion and the death of Dido, the defeat of Turnus, and the founding of Rome among the most memorable in literature. This celebrated translation by Robert Fitzgerald does full justice to the speed, clarity, and stately grandeur of the Roman Empire's most magnificent literary work of art.

Author : Virgil
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1963-01-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0253200458

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Vergil's Aeneid by Virgil Pdf

"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

Author : Hermann Broch
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1995-01-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780679755487

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Death of Virgil by Hermann Broch Pdf

It is the reign of the Emperor Augustus, and Publius Vergilius Maro, the poet of the Aeneid and Caesar's enchanter, has been summoned to the palace, where he will shortly die. Out of the last hours of Virgil's life and the final stirrings of his consciousness, the Austrian writer Hermann Broch fashioned one of the great works of twentieth-century modernism, a book that embraces an entire world and renders it with an immediacy that is at once sensual and profound. Begun while Broch was imprisoned in a German concentration camp, The Death of Virgil is part historical novel and part prose poem -- and always an intensely musical and immensely evocative meditation on the relation between life and death, the ancient and the modern.

Author : Bill Gladhill,Micah Young Myers
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487505776

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Walking Through Elysium by Bill Gladhill,Micah Young Myers Pdf

Walking through Elysium traces Vergil's influence on literary representations of underworlds, souls, afterlives, prophecies, journeys, and spaces, from sacred and profane to wild and civilized.

Author : Publius Vergilius Maro,Arthur Sidgwick
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Aeneid of Vergil by Publius Vergilius Maro,Arthur Sidgwick Pdf