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Joseph Farrell is Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of several books and papers on Latin literature, including Vergil’s Georgics and the Traditions of Ancient Epic (1991), and Latin Language and Latin Culture from Ancient to Modern Times (2001).
Michael C. J. Putnam is MacMillan Professor of Classics and Professor of Comparative Literature, Emeritus, at Brown University. His works include Maffeo Vegio: Short Epics (2004), Poetic Interplay: Catullus and Horace (2006), and The Virgilian Tradition: The First Fifteen Hundred Years (with Jan Ziolkowski, 2008)
Notes on Contributors x
Preface xv
Acknowledgments xvi
Note on References xvii
Introduction 1Joseph Farrell and Michael C.J. Putnam
PART I The Aeneid in Antiquity 11
1 Vergil's Library 13Damien P. Nelis
2 On First Looking into Vergil's Homer 26Ralph Hexter
3 The Development of the Aeneas Legend 37Sergio Casali
4 Aeneas' Sacral Authority 52Vassiliki Panoussi
5 Vergil's Roman 66J.D. Reed
6 Vergil, Ovid, and the Poetry of Exile 80Michael C.J. Putnam
7 The Unfinished Aeneid? 96James J. O'Hara
8 The Life of Vergil before Donatus 107Fabio Stok
PART II Medieval and Renaissance Receptions 121
9 Vergil and St. Augustine 123Garry Wills
10 Felix Casus: The Dares and Dictys Legends of Aeneas 133Sarah Spence
11 Vergil in Dante 147Rachel Jacoff
12 Marvelous Vergil in the Ferrarese Renaissance 158Dennis Looney
13 Spenser's Vergil: The Faerie Queene and the Aeneid 173Philip Hardie
14 The Aeneid in the Age of Milton 186Henry Power
15 Practicing What They Preach? Vergil and the Jesuits 203Yasmin Haskell
16 The Aeneid from the Aztecs to the Dark Virgin: Vergil, Native Tradition, and Latin Poetry in Colonial Mexico from Sahagún's Memoriales (1563) to Villerías' Guadalupe (1724) 217Andrew Laird
17 Vergil and Printed Books, 1500–1800 234Craig Kallendorf
PART III The Aeneid in Music and the Visual Arts 251
18 Vergil and the Pamphili Family in Piazza Navona, Rome 253Ingrid Rowland
19 Visual and Verbal Translation of Myth: Neptune in Vergil, Rubens, and Dryden 270Reuben A. Brower
20 The AEneas of Vergil: A Dramatic Performance Presented in the Original Latin by John Ogilby 290Kristi Eastin
21 Empire and Exile: Vergil in Romantic Art 311David Blayney Brown
22 Laocoons 325Glenn W. Most
23 Vergil in Music 341William Fitzgerald
PART IV The American Aeneid 353
24 Vergil and the Early American Republic 355Carl J. Richard
25 Why Did American Women Read the Aeneid? 366Caroline Winterer
26 Vergil in the Black American Experience 376Michele Valerie Ronnick
27 Vergil and Founding Violence 391Michèle Lowrie
28 Figuring the Founder: Vergil and the Challenge of Autocracy 404Joy Connolly
PART V Modern Reactions to the Aeneid 419
29 Classic Vergil 421Kenneth Haynes
30 Vergil's Detractors 435Joseph Farrell
31 Mind the Gap: On Foreignizing Translations of the Aeneid 449Susanna Morton Braund
32 Vergil's Aeneid and Contemporary Poetry 465Karl Kirchwey
Bibliography 482
Index 531
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