A Companion to Vergil's Aeneid and its Tradition

by Farrell, Joseph; Putnam, Michael C. J.

• ISBN13: 9781405175777
• ISBN10: 140517577X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-05-10
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

A Companion to Vergil's Aeneid and its Tradition presents a collection of original interpretive essays that represent an innovative addition to the body of Vergil scholarship. Provides fresh approaches to traditional Vergil scholarship and new insights into unfamiliar aspects of Vergil's textual history Features contributions by an international team of the most distinguished scholars Represents a distinctively original approach to Vergil scholarship

Author Biography

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), Latin Language and Latin Culture from Ancient to Modern Times (2001), and the forthcoming Juno’s Aeneid: Narrative, Metapoetics, Dissent.

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)

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

Author Bios

The Aeneid in Antiquity

Damien Nelis, "Vergil's Library"

Ralph Hexter, "On First Looking into Vergil's Homer"

Sergio Casali, "The Development of the Aeneas Legend"

Vassiliki Panoussi, "Aeneas Sacral Authority"

Joseph Reed, "Vergil's Roman"

Michael Putnam, "Vergil, Ovid and the Poetry of Exile"

James OHara, "The Unfinished Aeneid?"

Fabio Stok, "The Life of Virgil before Donatus"

Medieval and Renaissance Receptions

Garry Wills, Vergil and St. Augustine"

Sarah Spence, Felix Casus: The Dares and Dictys Legends of Aeneas"

Rachel Jacoff, Vergil in Dante"

Dennis Looney, Marvelous Vergil in the Ferrarese Renaissance"

Philip Hardie, Spensers Virgil: The Faerie Queene and the Aeneid"

Henry Power, The Aeneid in the Age of Milton"

Yasmin Haskell, Practising what they Preach? Virgil and the Jesuits"

Andrew Laird, The Aeneid from the Aztecs to the Dark Virgin: Vergil, native tradition, and Latin poetry in colonial Mexico from Sahagúns Memoriales (1563) to Villerías Guadalupe (1724)"

Craig Kallendorf, Vergil and Printed Books, 1500 1800"

The Aeneid in Music and the Visual Arts

Ingrid Rowland, Vergil and the Pamphili Family in Piazza Navona, Rome"

Reuben Brower, Visual and Verbal Translation of Myth: Neptune in Virgil, Rubens, and Dryden"

Kristi Eastin, The Aeneas of Vergil: Presented in the Original Latin by John Ogilby"

David Brown, Empire and Exile: Virgil in Romantic Art"

Glenn Most, Laocoons"

William Fitzgerald, Vergil in Music"

The American Aeneid

Carl Richard, Vergil and the Early American Republic"

Caroline Winterer, Why did American Women Read the Aeneid?"

Michele Valerie Ronnick, Virgil in the Black American Experience"

Michèle Lowrie, Vergil and Founding Violence"

Joy Connolly, Figuring the Founder: Vergil and the Challenge of Autocracy"

Modern Reactions to the Aeneid

Kenneth Haynes, Classic Virgil"

Joseph Farrell, Vergils Detractors"

Susanna Morton Braund, Mind the Gap: On Foreignising Translations of the Aeneid"

Karl Kirchwey, Vergils Aeneid and Contemporary Poetry

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