Virgil's Aeneid: A Reader's Guide

✍ Scribed by David Ross

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 168
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Written by eminent scholar David O. Ross, this guide helps readers to engage with the poetry, thought, and background of Virgil’s great epic, suggesting both the depth and the beauty of Virgil’s poetic images and the mental images with which the Romans lived. Guides readers through the complexity of Virgil’s poetic style and imagery All extracts are translated, with original Latin given when necessary Provides useful historical and social context in which to understand the poem as it was viewed in its time Includes short introductions to important topics such as Roman religion and the Roman concept of ‘character’ Features a helpful appendix which clarifies how to read and hear the poem's Latin hexameter

✦ Table of Contents

Virgil’s Aeneid: A Reader’s Guide......Page 1
Contents......Page 7
Preface......Page 9
Introduction......Page 13
1 Virgil’s Hero......Page 23
Three Scenes of Crisis......Page 24
The Hero and Personal Loss......Page 30
The Hero as Warrior (10.510–605)......Page 36
Some Observations on Character......Page 38
Dido......Page 44
Nisus and Euryalus......Page 47
Pallas and Lausus......Page 50
Some Aspects of Turnus......Page 55
Camilla......Page 64
Italy......Page 66
3 Fate and the Gods......Page 73
The Roman Gods......Page 74
The Gods in the Aeneid......Page 79
Fate in the Aeneid......Page 86
The Roman Troy......Page 89
The Destruction of Troy ( Aeneid Book II)......Page 94
Other Images of the Destruction of Troy (6.494–547, 1.450–93)......Page 98
Andromache’s Troy Restored (3.294–505)......Page 102
The Trojan Games (5.104–544)......Page 106
The Transformation of Troy (5.485–544)......Page 112
The Iusus Troiae (5.545–603)......Page 114
5 Rome, the rerum imago......Page 117
Jupiter’s Revelation (1.254–96)......Page 119
Anchises’ Review (6.756–892)......Page 121
The Shield of Aeneas (8.626–728)......Page 125
His Life and Times......Page 132
The Eclogues......Page 137
The Georgics......Page 145
Word Accent......Page 155
Accent and Ictus......Page 156
The Third-Foot Caesura......Page 157
The First Foot......Page 158
The Hexameter Line......Page 159
The Catullan Molossus......Page 163
General Index......Page 165
Index of Passages......Page 167