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A companion to Vergil's Aeneid and its tradition / edited by Joseph Farrell and Michael C.J. Putnam.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Blackwell companions to the ancient world.
- Blackwell companions to the ancient world
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Epic poetry, Latin--History and criticism.
- Epic poetry, Latin.
- Aeneas (Legendary character) in literature.
- Virgil. Aeneis.
- Virgil.
- Virgil--Appreciation.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 559 p.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom ; Malden : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A Companion to Vergil's Aeneid and its Tradition presents a collection of original interpretive essays that represent an innovative addition to the body of Vergil scholarship. * Provides fresh approaches to traditional Vergil scholarship and new insights into unfamiliar aspects of Vergil's textual history * Features contributions by an international team of the most distinguished scholars * Represents a distinctively original approach to Vergil scholarship
- Contents:
- Intro
- A COMPANION TO VERGIL'S AENEID AND ITS TRADITION
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Notes on Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Note on References
- Introduction
- PART I The Aeneid in Antiquity
- 1 Vergil's Library
- 2 On First Looking into Vergil's Homer
- 3 The Development of the Aeneas Legend
- 4 Aeneas' Sacral Authority
- 5 Vergil's Roman
- 6 Vergil, Ovid, and the Poetry of Exile
- 7 The Unfinished Aeneid?
- 8 The Life of Vergil before Donatus
- PART II Medieval and Renaissance Receptions
- 9 Vergil and St. Augustine
- 10 Felix Casus: The Dares and Dictys Legends of Aeneas
- 11 Vergil in Dante
- 12 Marvelous Vergil in the Ferrarese Renaissance
- 13 Spenser's Vergil: The Faerie Queene and the Aeneid
- 14 The Aeneid in the Age of Milton
- 15 Practicing What They Preach? Vergil and the Jesuits
- 16 The Aeneid from the Aztecs to the Dark Virgin: Vergil, Native Tradition, and Latin Poetry in Colonial Mexico from Sahagún's Memoriales (1563)to Villerías' Guadalupe (1724)
- 17 Vergil and Printed Books, 1500-1800
- PART III The Aeneid in Music and the Visual Arts
- 18 Vergil and the Pamphili Family in Piazza Navona, Rome
- 19 Visual and Verbal Translation of Myth: Neptune in Vergil, Rubens, and Dryden
- 20 The Æneas of Vergil: A Dramatic Performance Presented in the Original Latin by John Ogilby
- 21 Empire and Exile: Vergil in Romantic Art
- 22 Laocoons
- 23 Vergil in Music
- PART IV The American Aeneid
- 24 Vergil and the Early American Republic
- 25 Why Did American Women Read the Aeneid?
- 26 Vergil in the Black American Experience
- 27 Vergil and Founding Violence
- 28 Figuring the Founder: Vergil and the Challenge of Autocracy
- PART V Modern Reactions to the Aeneid
- 29 Classic Vergil
- 30 Vergil's Detractors
- 31 Mind the Gap: On Foreignizing Translations of the Aeneid.
- 32 Vergil's Aeneid and Contemporary Poetry
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612548277
- 9781444318050
- 1444318055
- 9781782685036
- 1782685030
- 9781405197298
- 1405197293
- 9781282548275
- 1282548271
- 9781444318067
- 1444318063
- OCLC:
- 587391453
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