Reading Vergil's Aeneid: An Interpretive GuideVergil's Aeneid has been considered a classic, if not the classic, of Western literature for two thousand years. In recent decades this famous poem has become the subject of fresh and searching controversy. What is the poem's fundamental meaning? Does it endorse or undermine values of empire and patriarchy? Is its world view comic or tragic? Many studies of the poem have focused primarily on selected books. The approach here is comprehensive. An introduction by editor Christine Perkell discusses the poem's historical background, its reception from antiquity to the present, and its most important themes. The book-by-book readings that follow both explicate the text and offer a variety of interpretations. Concluding topic chapters focus on the Aeneid as foundation story, the influence of Apollonius' Argonautica, the poem's female figures, and English translations of the Aeneid. Written in an accessible style and providing translations of all Latin passages, this volume will be of particular value to teachers and students of humanities courses as well as to specialists. |
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المحتوى
An Epic Program | 29 |
SelfTelling and Theodicy in Aeneid 2 | 51 |
A Reading of Aeneid 3 | 64 |
Voices of Authority in Aeneid 4 | 80 |
Poetry and Parenthood | 96 |
Viewing the Spectacula of Aeneid 6 | 111 |
A Reading of Aeneid 7 | 128 |
Images of Rome | 148 |
The Saddest Book | 195 |
Unity in Closure | 210 |
The Aeneid as Foundation Story | 231 |
Vanishing Bodies | 251 |
Vergil and Apollonius | 271 |
Five Hundred Years of Rendering the Aeneid in English | 285 |
Notes | 303 |
Comprehensive Bibliography | 337 |
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| العنوان | Reading Vergil's Aeneid: An Interpretive Guide المجلد 23 من Oklahoma series in classical culture |
| المُحرر | Christine G. Perkell |
| الناشر | University of Oklahoma Press, 1999 |
| رقم ISBN (الرقم الدولي المعياري للكتاب) | 080613139X, 9780806131399 |
| عدد الصفحات | 353 من الصفحات |
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