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Poetry underpinning power : Vergil's Aeneid : the epic for Emperor Augustus : a recovery study / Hans-Peter Stahl.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stahl, Hans-Peter, author.
- Series:
- Roman culture in an age of civil war
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Virgil. Aeneis.
- Virgil.
- Virgil--Political and social views.
- Epic poetry, Latin--History and criticism.
- Epic poetry, Latin.
- Politics and literature--Rome.
- Politics and literature.
- Aeneas (Legendary character)--In literature.
- Aeneas.
- Aeneis (Virgil).
- Political and social views.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 488 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Swansea : The Classical Press of Wales, 2015.
- Contents:
- Part I Pious King Aeneas and His Ethically Flawed Opponents
- 1 Augustan Vergil and the Political Rival 1
- 2 The Death of King Turnus 33
- 3 Aeneas the Warrior 109
- 4 Winning the Reader's Assent through Subliminal Guidance 163
- 5 Allocating Guilt and Innocence, I: Queen Dido, the Liberated Widow 183
- Part II Checks and Balances of a Literary Interpretation: Political Detours of Poetic Travel Routes
- 6 Before Founding Lavinium, Aeneas Inspects the Site of Rome 251
- Part III Testing a Critical Method by Repeat Application: The Ancient Author Guides His Reader
- 7 Allocating Guilt and Innocence, II: Turnus the Jmpious Opponent 347
- 8 Epilogue 437.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 463-474) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9781910589045
- 1910589047
- OCLC:
- 907143442
- Publisher Number:
- 99968012257
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