Virgil: Aeneid Book VIII

✍ Scribed by K. W. Gransden (Editor)

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 1976
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 216
• Series: Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Book VIII is one of the most attractive and important books of Virgil's Aeneid. It includes the visit of Aaneas to the site of the future Rome, the story of Hercules and Cacus, the episode between Venus and Vulcan and the description of the great symbolic shield of Aeneas. Mr Gransden's introduction relates this book to the Aeneid as a whole considers the text in various aspects: the topography, Virgil's sense of history, his typology and symbolism, his literary style and his influence on subsequent vernacular poetry. The commentary discusses points of special interest and difficulty in interpretation, style and prosody and gives detailed explanation of the many allusions in Book VIII to customs, legends, traditions and historical events. This is primarily a textbook for university students and sixth-formers, but it also contains material which may be of interest to students of English and comparative literature.

✦ Table of Contents

COVER
......Page 1
SERIES
......Page 3
Recto......Page 5
Verso
......Page 6
CONTENTS......Page 7
PREFACE......Page 9
MOTTO
......Page 11
MAP
......Page 12
I. VIRGIL'S CAREER AND REPUTATION......Page 13
(i) Structure
......Page 16
(ii) Aeneas
......Page 23
(iii) Typology
......Page 26
(iv) Aeneas' Arrival in Latium--The Events of Book VII
......Page 32
(ii) Evander
......Page 36
(iii)
Topography......Page 41
(iv) Myth as Allegory
......Page 48
(i) The Epic Style
......Page 54
(ii) The Hexameter
......Page 56
(iii) Periods, Paragraphs and Hemistichs
......Page 58
(iv) Feeling and Rhetoric
......Page 61
NOTE ON THE TEXT......Page 63
SIGLA......Page 64
P. VERGILI MARONIS AENEIDOS LIBER
OCTAVVS......Page 65
1-17
......Page 89
18-101
......Page 93
102-189
......Page 108
190-305
......Page 118
306-369
......Page 135
370-453
......Page 145
454-584
......Page 156
585-625
......Page 169
626-728......Page 173
729-31 Epilogue
......Page 196
THE PROOPHECY OF TIBERINUS (36-65
)......Page 200
VIRGIL'S HEXAMETERS......Page 203
1.
Editions, Commentaries and Translations......Page 205
2. Other Works
......Page 206
1. Latin Words
......Page 208
2. General
......Page 210
COVER BACK
......Page 216