Virgil's Aeneid: Interpretation and InfluenceUniv of North Carolina Press, 1995 - 332 páginas 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 indivi |
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... takes us from two general discussions , of Virgil's work as a whole and then of the Aeneid , to six studies of individual books of the epic . There follow two essays which look with particular attention at the conclusion of the poem . I ...
... takes us from two general discussions , of Virgil's work as a whole and then of the Aeneid , to six studies of individual books of the epic . There follow two essays which look with particular attention at the conclusion of the poem . I ...
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... takes the role of nature over culture , of irrational violence over calming words , as he allows private passion to supersede any larger gestures of magnanimity . Virgil's is a poem that at once sustains the discourses of political ...
... takes the role of nature over culture , of irrational violence over calming words , as he allows private passion to supersede any larger gestures of magnanimity . Virgil's is a poem that at once sustains the discourses of political ...
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... takes dynamic shape in Roman history and in the future of Roman epic . 6 Memory , too , plays a role in this poetic circularity which Virgil sets up in imaginative counterpoint to the linearity we expect of epic , especially one which ...
... takes dynamic shape in Roman history and in the future of Roman epic . 6 Memory , too , plays a role in this poetic circularity which Virgil sets up in imaginative counterpoint to the linearity we expect of epic , especially one which ...
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... takes control at the end and renders void any higher ethical purposes . All we have left is words , the extraordinary words that in each case complete by the very act of an- nouncing incompletion , by making the hero's very emotionality ...
... takes control at the end and renders void any higher ethical purposes . All we have left is words , the extraordinary words that in each case complete by the very act of an- nouncing incompletion , by making the hero's very emotionality ...
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Índice
The Virgilian Achievement | 7 |
Possessiveness Sexuality and Heroism in the Aeneid | 25 |
The Third Book of the Aeneid From Homer to Rome | 48 |
Daedalus Virgil and the End of Art | 71 |
Aeneid 7 and the Aeneid | 98 |
Umbro Nireus and Loves Threnody | 119 |
Pius Aeneas and the Metamorphosis of Lausus | 132 |
The Hesitation of Aeneas | 150 |
Anger Blindness and Insight in Virgils Aeneid | 170 |
Wrathful Aeneas and the Tactics of Pietas in Virgil Ovid and Lucan | 199 |
Virgils Tragic Future Senecan Drama and the Aeneid | 244 |
Virgils Inferno | 284 |
Bibliography | 315 |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Achaemenides Achilles action Aeneas Aeneid Allecto amor Anchises anger arma Augustan Augustus battle becomes blood Cacus Caesar Cicero Circe civil clementia conclusion Creusa Daedalus Dante Dante's death deed Dido Dido's Dira divine dolor earlier emotion epic epic's episode especially Evander father final force furiae furiis accensus furor fury future Georgic gods Greek hand Hector Helenus Hercules hero hero's hesitation Hippolytus Homer human Icarus Iliad imagination initial Juno Juno's Jupiter Jupiter's killing Turnus Latinus Latium Lausus lines Lucan madness ment metamorphosis metaphor Mezentius moral narrator Nireus Odysseus offer Ovid Pallas parallel passion peace phrase pietas piety poem poem's poet poet's poetry rage reader reminder resentment revenge Roman Rome Rome's sacrifice saeva saevi saevus Seneca Servius shield Sibyl simile soul spare suffering suppliant sword symbol tale Thyestes tion Trojans Troy turn Turnus Umbro Underworld vengeance Venus victim violence Virgil Virgilian words wound wrath
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