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Author : Virgil,Peter V. Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521768665
This book provides all the help that an intermediate Latin learner will need to read the first two books of the Aeneid.
Author : Christine G. Perkell
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 080613139X
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.
Author : Richard F. Thomas
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0472108972
Dynamic textual interplay: inherent and inherited
Author : Paul Murgatroyd
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781527570726
This book is aimed primarily at English-speaking Classical Civilization students taking courses in Virgil, epic and myth at schools, colleges and universities, but will also be of interest to students reading Virgil Aeneid 2 in Latin and to the general reader. The book provides something new for those studying Virgil in translation, offering a detailed and in-depth literary analysis of a single book of the Aeneid, one of the most famous and appealing parts of the whole poem. The book provides a brief introduction to Virgil and the Aeneid in general, and Book 2 in particular. It also offers literary analysis, in order to enhance critical appreciation and plain enjoyment, making the book really come alive. At the end of each chapter exercises, topics for investigation, and references to other scholars and Classical authors are included to extend the engagement with Virgil. At the end of the book, Appendix A contains translations of other versions of the fall of Troy, and Appendix B summarizes the rest of Aeneas’ narrative in Book 3 of the Aeneid (with translation of, and comment, on key passages).
Author : P Vergilius Maro
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798580983592
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.
Author : Virgil
Publisher : The Floating Press
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781775414896
Aeneas appears in The Illiad in vague snatches and starts as a traveling warrior of great piety who was loosely connected to the foundation of Rome. Virgil weaves these fragments into a powerful myth about the founding of Rome in The Aeneid. Aeneas travels from his native Troy to Italy then wages victorious war upon the Latins.
Author : Juan Christian Pellicer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350198234
This study in reception develops close readings of English literature as means of interrogating Virgil's texts. Through four case studies, bookended by wide-ranging introductory and concluding chapters, this book shows how interpreting the Eclogues, Georgics and Aeneid through modern responses can serve to focus on aspects of Virgil that would otherwise be differently perceived or else escape notice altogether. Juan Christian Pellicer probes our perceptions of the three Virgilian genres (pastoral, georgic, and epic) and analyzes the ways in which modern reconfigurations of these genres can inform our readings of Virgil's works, as well as help us realize how our own ideas about Virgil reflect the literary receptions through which we approach his texts. This book offers a practical demonstration of classical reception and its value as a critical procedure. By testing the value of modern responses to Virgil as means by which to read his texts, Pellicer critically examines a central tenet of reception studies of classical authors, namely that our understanding of their work can benefit from the receptions through which we perceive them. The reader will find Virgil's texts reconfigured in challenging new ways and will find new appreciations of the classical traditions that inform key texts in the English canon.
Author : Richard F. Thomas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2001-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139433518
This book is an examination of the ideological reception of Virgil at specific moments in the last two millennia. The author focuses on the emperor Augustus in the poetry of Virgil, detects in the poets and grammarians of antiquity alternately a collaborative oppositional reading and an attempt to suppress such reading, studies creative translation (particularly Dryden's), which reasserts the 'Augustan' Virgil, and examines naive translation which can be truer to the spirit of Virgil. Scrutiny of 'textual cleansing', philology's rewriting or excision of troubling readings, leads to readings by both supporters and opponents of fascism and National Socialism to support or subvert the latter-day Augustus. The book ends with a diachronic examination of the ways successive ages have tried to make the Aeneid conform to their upbeat expectations of this poet.
Author : Virgil
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107071339
A complete treatment of Aeneid XI, with a thorough introduction to key characters, context, and metre, and a detailed line-by-line commentary which will aid readers' understanding of Virgil's language and syntax. Indispensable for students and instructors reading this important book, which includes the funeral of Pallas and the death of Camilla.
Author : Fiachra Mac Góráin,Charles Martindale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 573 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107170186
Presents stimulating chapters on Virgil and his reception, offering an authoritative overview of the current state of Virgilian studies.
Author : Virgil
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Epic poetry, Latin
ISBN : HARVARD:HN6KCK
Author : Susanna Braund,Zara Martirosova Torlone
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-13
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780192538833
This is the first volume to offer a critical overview of the long and complicated history of translations of Virgil from the early modern period to the present day, transcending traditional studies of single translations or particular national traditions in isolation to offer an insightful comparative perspective. The twenty-nine essays in the collection cover numerous European languages - from English, French, and German, to Greek, Irish, Italian, Norwegian, Slovenian, and Spanish - but also look well beyond Europe to include discussion of Brazilian, Chinese, Esperanto, Russian, and Turkish translations of Virgil. While the opening two contributions lay down a broad theoretical and comparative framework, the majority conduct comparisons within a particular language and combine detailed case studies with in-depth contextualization and theoretical background, showing how the translations discussed are embedded in their own cultures and historical moments. The final two essays are written from the perspective of contemporary translators, closing out the volume with a profound assessment not only of the influence exerted by the major Roman poet on later literature, but also why translation of a canonical author such as Virgil matters, not only as a national and transnational cultural phenomenon, but as a personal engagement with a literature of enduring power and relevance.
Author : Scott McGill,Assistant Professor of Classical Studies Scott McGill,Virgile
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2005-07-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780195175646
This is the first book to present a comprehensive study of the mythological and secular Virgilian centos.
Author : Edan Dekel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136653797
Virgil’s Homeric Lens reevaluates the traditional view of the Aeneid’s relationship to Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey. Almost since the death of Virgil, there has been an assumption that the Aeneid breaks into two discrete halves: Virgil’s Odyssey, and Virgil’s Iliad. Although modified in various ways over the centuries, this neat dichotomy has generally diminished the complexity and resonance of the connection between the two canonical epic poets. This work offers an alternate approach in which Virgil uses the transformative power of the Odyssey as a precise filter through which to read the Iliadic experience. By examining the ways in which Virgil bases his own epic project on the dynamic interaction between the two Homeric poems themselves, Edan Dekel proposes a system in which the Aeneid uses the Odyssey both as a conceptual model for writing an intertextual epic and as a powerful refracting lens for the specific interpretation of the Iliad and its consequences. The traditional view of the Homeric poems as static sources for the construction of distinct "Odyssean" and "Iliadic" halves of the Aeneid is supplanted by an analysis which emphasizes the active and persistent influence of the Odyssey as a guide to processing the major thematic concerns of the Iliad and exploring the multiple aftermaths of the Trojan war.
Author : Lee Fratantuono
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0739122428
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.