Madness unchained : a reading of Virgil's Aeneid / Lee Fratantuono.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fratantuono, Lee, 1973-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Virgil. Aeneis.

Virgil.

Physical Description:

xix, 427 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2007]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Arms and the man

All fell silent

After it seemed best

But the queen

Meanwhile sure Aeneas

So he spoke, weeping

You also, dying

As Turnus raised

And while these things

The House of Olympus

Dawn left the ocean

As Turnus sees.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-418) and index.

ISBN:

9780739112373

0739112376

9780739122426

0739122428

OCLC:

85833341