Virgil's Aeneid: Interpretation and Influence

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Univ of North Carolina Press, 9 thg 11, 2000 - 352 trang
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.

 

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Preface
The Virgilian Achievement
Possessiveness Sexuality and Heroism in the Aeneid
From Homer to Rome
Daedalus Virgil and the End of
Aeneid 7 and the Aeneid
Umbro Nireus and Loves Threnody
Pius Aeneas and the Metamorphosis of Lausus
Anger Blindness and Insight in Virgils Aeneid
Wrathful Aeneas and the Tactics of Pietas in Virgil Ovid
Senecan Drama and the Aeneid
Virgils Inferno
Bibliography
Index of Passages
General Index
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Michael C. J. Putnam is MacMillan Professor of Classics at Brown University. His many books include The Poetry of the Aeneid and Virgil's Pastoral Art: Studies in the Eclogues.

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