Virgil's Aeneid: Interpretation and InfluenceUniversity of North Carolina Press, 1995 - 332 pages In this collection of twelve of his essays, distinguished Virgil scholar Michael Putnam examines the Aeneid from several different interpretive angles. He identifies the themes that permeate the epic, provides detailed interpretations of its individual books, and analyzes the poem's influence on later writers, including Ovid, Lucan, Seneca, and Dante. In addition, a major essay on wrathful Aeneas and the tactics of Pietas is published here for the first time. Putnam first surveys the intellectual development that shaped Virgil's poetry. He then examines several of the poem's recurrent dichotomies and metaphors, including idealism and realism, the line and the circle, and piety and fury. In succeeding chapters, he examines in detail the meaning of particular books of the Aeneid and argues that a close reading of the end of the epic is crucial for understanding the poem as a whole and Virgil's goals in composing it. |
Contents
Introduction I | 1 |
The Virgilian Achievement | 9 |
Possessiveness Sexuality and Heroism | 27 |
Copyright | |
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Achaemenides Achilles action Aeneas Aeneid Allecto amor Anchises anger arma Augustan Augustus battle becomes blood Cacus Caesar Cicero Circe civil clementia Creusa Daedalus Dante Dante's death deed Dido Dido's Dira divine dolor earlier emotion epic epic's episode especially Evander father final force furiae furiis accensus furor fury future Georgic gods Greek hand Hector Helen Helenus Hercules hero hero's hesitation Hippolytus Homer human Icarus Iliad imagination initial Juno Juno's Jupiter Jupiter's killing Turnus Latinus Latium Lausus lines Lucan madness ment metamorphosis metaphor Mezentius moral narrator Nireus Odysseus offer Ovid Pallas parallel passion peace phrase pietas piety poem poem's poet poet's poetry rage reader reminder resentment revenge Roman Rome Rome's sacrifice saeva saevi saevus Seneca Servius shield Sibyl simile soul spare suffering suppliant sword symbol tale Thyestes tion Trojans Troy turn Turnus Umbro Underworld vengeance Venus victim violence Virgil Virgilian words wound wrath
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