A Companion to Vergil's Aeneid and its Tradition
by Editor: Joseph Farrell (University of Pennsylvania, USA ); Editor: Michael C. J. Putnam (Brown University, USA )Format: eBook
Pub. Date: 2010-03-01
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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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
Table of Contents
| Illustrations | |
| Notes on Contributors | |
| Preface | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Note on References | |
| Introduction | |
| The Aeneid in Antiquity | |
| Vergil's Library | |
| On First Looking into Vergil's Homer | |
| The Development of the Aeneas Legend | |
| Aeneas' Sacral Authority | |
| Vergil's Roman | |
| Vergil, Ovid, and the Poetry of Exile | |
| The Unfinished Aeneid ? | |
| The Life of Vergil before Donatus | |
| Medieval and Renaissance Receptions | |
| Vergil and St. Augustine | |
| Felix Casus: The Dares and Dictys Legends of Aeneas | |
| Vergil in Dante | |
| Marvelous Vergil in the Ferrarese Renaissance | |
| Spenser's Vergil: The Faerie Queene and the Aeneid | |
| The Aeneid in the Age of Milton | |
| Practicing What They Preach? Vergil and the Jesuits | |
| 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) | |
| Vergil and Printed Books, 1500-1800 | |
| The Aeneid in Music and the Visual Arts | |
| Vergil and the Pamphili Family in Piazza Navona, Rome | |
| Visual and Verbal Translation of Myth: Neptune in Vergil, Rubens, and Dryden | |
| The Æneas of Vergil: A Dramatic Performance Presented in the Original Latin by John Ogilby | |
| Empire and Exile: Vergil in Romantic Art | |
| Laocoons | |
| Vergil in Music | |
| The American Aeneid | |
| Vergil and the Early American Republic | |
| Why Did American Women Read the Aeneid ? | |
| Vergil in the Black American Experience | |
| Vergil and Founding Violence | |
| Figuring the Founder: Vergil and the Challenge of Autocracy | |
| Modern Reactions to the Aeneid | |
| Classic Vergil | |
| Vergil's Detractors | |
| Mind the Gap: On Foreignizing Translations of the Aeneid | |
| Vergil's Aeneid and Contemporary Poetry | |
| Bibliography | |
| Index | |
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