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Virgil's Aeneid : interpretation and influence / Michael C.J. Putnam.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Putnam, Michael C. J.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Virgil. Aeneis.
- Virgil.
- Virgil--Influence.
- Epic poetry, Latin--History and criticism.
- Epic poetry, Latin.
- Literature, Modern--Roman influences.
- Literature, Modern.
- Rome--In literature.
- Rome.
- Aeneas (Legendary character)--In literature.
- Aeneas.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (332 p. )
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1995.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Annotation 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:
- The Virgilian achievement
- Possessiveness, sexuality, and heroism in the Aeneid
- The third book of the Aeneid: from Homer to Rome
- Daedalus, Virgil, and the end of art
- Aeneid 7 and the Aeneid
- Umbro, Nireus, and love's Threnody
- Pius Aeneas and the metamorphosis of Lausus
- The hesitation of Aeneas
- Anger, blindness, and insight in Virgil's Aeneid
- Wrathful Aeneas and the tactics of Pietas in Virgil, Ovid, and Lucan
- Virgil's tragic future: Senecan drama and the Aeneid
- Virgil's inferno.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-324) and indexes.
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- ISBN:
- 9798890864482
- 9780807863947
- 0807863947
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