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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. Literature and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Virgil. Aeneis.
- Virgil.
- Virgil--Appreciation.
- Aeneas (Legendary character)--In literature.
- Aeneas.
- Epic poetry, Latin--History and criticism.
- Epic poetry, Latin.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 559 pages) : illustrations (some color.
- Place of Publication:
- Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom ; Malden, Mass. : Wiley-Blackwell, ©2010.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- A Companion to Vergil's Aeneid and its Tradition presents a collection of original interpretive essays by an international team of renowned scholars. Topics covered include Vergil's handling of sources; the history of Vergil reception in literature; and the enduring influence of Vergilian themes in prose, music, and art. The problem of translating the Aeneid into English and other languages is also covered, along with a survey of more recent translations into non-Western languages and their reception. Thought-provoking and accessible, A Companion to Vergil's Aeneid and its Tradition draws out wonderful new insights and complexities from the works of a poet whose voice continues to resonate after 2,000 years. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Vergil's library / Damien P. Nelis
- On first looking into Vergil's Homer / Ralph Hexter
- The development of the Aeneas legend / Sergio Casali
- Aeneas' sacral authority / Vassiliki Panoussi
- Vergil's Roman / J.D. Reed
- Vergil, Ovid, and the poetry of exile / Michael C.J. Putnam
- The unfinished Aeneid? / James J. O'Hara
- The life of Vergil before Donatus / Fabio Stok
- Vergil and St. Augustine / Garry Wills
- Felix Casus: the dares and Dictys legends of Aeneas / Sarah Spence
- Vergil in Dante / Rachel Jacoff
- Marvelous Vergil in the Ferrarese renaissance / Dennis Looney
- Spenser's Vergil: The faerie queene and the Aeneid / Philip Hardie
- The Aeneid in the age of Milton / Henry Power
- Practicing what they preach? Vergil and the Jesuits / Yasmin Haskell
- The Aeneid from the Aztecs to the dark virgin: Vergil, native tradition, and Latin poetry in colonial Mexico from SahaguÌn's Memoriales (1563) to VilleriÌas' Guadalupe (1724) / Andrew Laird
- Vergil and printed books, 1500-1800 / Craig Kallendorf
- Vergil and the Pamphili family in Piazza Navona, Rome / Ingrid Rowland
- Visual and verbal translation of myth: Neptune in Vergil, Rubens, and Dryden / Reuben A. Brower
- The Ãneas of Vergil: a dramatic performance presented in the original Latin by John Ogilby / Kristi Eastin
- Empire and Exile: Vergil in romantic art / David Blayney Brown
- Laocoons / Glenn W. Most
- Vergil in music / William Fitzgerald
- Vergil and the early American republic / Carl J. Richard
- Why did American women read the Aeneid? / Caroline Winterer
- Vergil in the black American experience / MicheÌle Valerie Ronnick
- Vergil and the founding violence / Michele Lowrie
- Figuring the founder: Vergil and the challenge of autocracy / Joy Connolly
- Classic Vergil / Kenneth Haynes
- Vergil's detractors / Joseph Farrell
- Mind the gap: on foreignizing translations of the Aeneid / Susanna Morton Braund
- Vergil's Aeneid and contemporary poetry / Karl Kirchwey.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 482-530) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Hoboken, N.J. Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the William Alexander Lamberton Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781444318050
- 1444318055
- Publisher Number:
- 99980806661
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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