Vergil's Aeneid: Augustan Epic and Political Context

✍ Scribed by Hans-Peter Stahl

• Publisher: Classical Press of Wales
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 356
• Edition: Illustrated
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A collection of 14 papers in which contributors use diverging critical methods on a selection of extracts from Vergil's epic, with the examination of political references in the work being prominent, as well as the question of the Aeneid's central meaning. Contents include: Vergil announcing the Aeneid. On Geo. 3.1-48 (Egil Kraggerud); The Peopling of the Underworld (Anton Powell); Vergil as a Republican (Eckard Lefevre); The Sword-Belt of Pallas: Moral Symbolism and Political Ideology (Stephen Harrison);The Isolation of Turnus (Richard F. Thomas) and The End and the Meaning (David West). 324p (paperback 2009)

✦ Table of Contents

CONTENTS
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS AND CHAPTER SUMMARIES
PREFACE
EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION
VERGIL ANNOUNCING THE AENEID On Georgics 3.1–481
RELIGION IN THE POLITICS OF AUGUSTUS Aeneid 1.278–91, 8.714–23, 12.791–8421
POLITICAL STOP-OVERS ON A MYTHOLOGICAL TRAVEL ROUTE: FROM BATTLING HARPIES TO THE BATTLE OF ACTIUM Aeneid 3.268–93
THE PEOPLING OF THE UNDERWORLD Aeneid 6.608–27
VERGIL AS A REPUBLICAN Aeneid 6.815–35
THE SHOW MUST GO ON: THE DEATH OF MARCELLUS AND THE FUTURE OF THE AUGUSTAN PRINCIPATE Aeneid 6.860–86
ALLECTO’S FIRST VICTIM: A STUDY OF VERGIL’S AMATA Aeneid 7.341–405 and 12.1–80
OPENING THE GATES OF WAR Aeneid 7.601–40
ASSIMILATION AND CIVIL WAR: HERCULES AND CACUS Aeneid 8
NON ENARRABILE TEXTUM? THE SHIELD OF AENEAS AND THE TRIPLE TRIUMPH OF 29 BC Aeneid 8.630–728
THE SWORD-BELT OF PALLAS: MORAL SYMBOLISM AND POLITICAL IDEOLOGY Aeneid 10.495–505
FAME AND DEFAMATION IN THE AENEID: THE COUNCIL OF LATINS Aeneid 11.225–4671
THE ISOLATION OF TURNUS Aeneid Book12
14 THE END AND THE MEANING Aeneid 12.791–842
INDEX