A Companion to Vergil's Aeneid and its Tradition.

By: Farrell, JosephContributor(s): Putnam, Michael C. JMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World SerPublisher: Hoboken : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2010Copyright date: ©2009Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (587 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781444318067Subject(s): Aeneas (Legendary character) in literature | Epic poetry, Latin -- History and criticism | Virgil -- Appreciation | Virgil. -- AeneisGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: A Companion to Vergil's Aeneid and its TraditionDDC classification: 873.01 LOC classification: PA6825.C64 2010Online resources: Click to View
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.
Summary: Joseph Farrell is Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of several books and papers on Latin literature, including Vergil's Georgics and the Traditions of Ancient Epic (1991), Latin Language and Latin Culture from Ancient to Modern Times (2001), and the forthcoming Juno's Aeneid: Narrative, Metapoetics, Dissent. Michael C. J. Putnam is MacMillan Professor of Classics and Professor of Comparative Literature, Emeritus, at Brown University. His works include Maffeo Vegio: Short Epics (2004), Poetic Interplay: Catullus and Horace (2006), and The Virgilian Tradition: The First Fifteen Hundred Years (with Jan Ziolkowski, 2008).
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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.

Joseph Farrell is Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of several books and papers on Latin literature, including Vergil's Georgics and the Traditions of Ancient Epic (1991), Latin Language and Latin Culture from Ancient to Modern Times (2001), and the forthcoming Juno's Aeneid: Narrative, Metapoetics, Dissent. Michael C. J. Putnam is MacMillan Professor of Classics and Professor of Comparative Literature, Emeritus, at Brown University. His works include Maffeo Vegio: Short Epics (2004), Poetic Interplay: Catullus and Horace (2006), and The Virgilian Tradition: The First Fifteen Hundred Years (with Jan Ziolkowski, 2008).

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