Junos Aeneid

Author : Joseph Farrell
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691221251
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Juno's Aeneid written by Joseph Farrell and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-12-05 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major new interpretation of Vergil's epic poem as a struggle between two incompatible versions of the Homeric hero This compelling book offers an entirely new way of understanding the Aeneid. Many scholars regard Vergil's poem as an attempt to combine Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey into a single epic. Joseph Farrell challenges this view, revealing how the Aeneid stages an epic contest to determine which kind of story it will tell—and what kind of hero Aeneas will be. Farrell shows how this contest is provoked by the transgressive goddess Juno, who challenges Vergil for the soul of his hero and poem. Her goal is to transform the poem into an Iliad of continuous Trojan persecution instead of an Odyssey of successful homecoming. Farrell discusses how ancient critics considered the flexible Odysseus the model of a good leader but censured the hero of the Iliad, the intransigent Achilles, as a bad one. He describes how the battle over which kind of leader Aeneas will prove to be continues throughout the poem, and explores how this struggle reflects in very different ways on the ethical legitimacy of Rome’s emperor, Caesar Augustus. By reframing the Aeneid in this way, Farrell demonstrates how the purpose of the poem is to confront the reader with an urgent decision between incompatible possibilities and provoke uncertainty about whether the poem is a celebration of Augustus or a melancholy reflection on the discontents of a troubled age.

Author : P Vergilius Maro
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aeneid Book 1 written by P Vergilius Maro and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-20 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These books are intended to make Virgil's Latin accessible even to those with a fairly rudimentary knowledge of the language. There is a departure here from the format of the electronic books, with short sections generally being presented on single, or double, pages and endnotes entirely avoided. A limited number of additional footnotes is included, but only what is felt necessary for a basic understanding of the story and the grammar. Some more detailed footnotes have been taken from Conington's edition of the Aeneid.

Author : Virgil
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book AEneid written by Virgil and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Christine G. Perkell
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806131399
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading Vergil's Aeneid written by Christine G. Perkell and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vergil's Aeneid has been considered a classic, if not the classic, of Western literature for two thousand years. In recent decades this famous poem has become the subject of fresh and searching controversy. What is the poem's fundamental meaning? Does it endorse or undermine values of empire and patriarchy? Is its world view comic or tragic? Many studies of the poem have focused primarily on selected books. The approach here is comprehensive. An introduction by editor Christine Perkell discusses the poem's historical background, its reception from antiquity to the present, and its most important themes. The book-by-book readings that follow both explicate the text and offer a variety of interpretations. Concluding topic chapters focus on the Aeneid as foundation story, the influence of Apollonius' Argonautica, the poem's female figures, and English translations of the Aeneid. Written in an accessible style and providing translations of all Latin passages, this volume will be of particular value to teachers and students of humanities courses as well as to specialists.

Author : P Vergilius Maro
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aeneid Book 4 written by P Vergilius Maro and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-31 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These books are intended to make Virgil's Latin accessible even to those with a fairly rudimentary knowledge of the language. There is a departure here from the format of the electronic books, with short sections generally being presented on single, or double, pages and endnotes entirely avoided. A limited number of additional footnotes is included, but only what is felt necessary for a basic understanding of the story and the grammar. Some more detailed footnotes have been taken from Conington's edition of the Aeneid.

Author : Virgil
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0679729526
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Aeneid written by Virgil and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1990-06-16 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fitzgerald's [translation] is so decisively the best modern Aeneid that it is unthinkable that anyone will want to use any other version for a long time to come." —New York Review of Books Virgil's great epic transforms the Homeric tradition into a triumphal statement of the Roman civilizing mission—translated by Robert Fitzgerald.

Author : Virgil
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 852 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Virgil's Aeneid written by Virgil and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Virgil
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aeneid written by Virgil and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Martindale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521498852
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Virgil written by Charles Martindale and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-10-02 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virgil became a school author in his own lifetime and the centre of the Western canon for the next 1800 years, exerting a major influence on European literature, art, and politics. This Companion is designed as an indispensable guide for anyone seeking a fuller understanding of an author critical to so many disciplines. It consists of essays by seventeen scholars from Britain, the USA, Ireland and Italy which offer a range of different perspectives both traditional and innovative on Virgil's works, and a renewed sense of why Virgil matters today. The Companion is divided into four main sections, focussing on reception, genre, context, and form. This ground-breaking book not only provides a wealth of material for an informed reading but also offers sophisticated insights which point to the shape of Virgilian scholarship and criticism to come.

Author : Christopher Pearse Cranch
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368169955
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Aeneid of Virgil written by Christopher Pearse Cranch and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-06-10 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1872.