A Companion to Vergil's Aeneid and its Tradition

Copyright © 2010 Joseph Farrell and Michael C.J. Putnam

A Companion to Vergil's Aeneid and its Tradition

Editor(s): Joseph Farrell, Michael C. J. Putnam

Published Online: 19 MAR 2010

Print ISBN: 9781405175777

Online ISBN: 9781444318050

DOI: 10.1002/9781444318050

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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

Table of contents

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      Front Matter (pages i–xvii)

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      Colour Plates (pages c1–c8)

    1. Introduction (pages 1–9)

      Joseph Farrell and Michael C. J. Putnam

  4. Part One: The Aeneid in Antiquity

    1. Chapter One

      Vergil's Library (pages 11–25)

      Damien P. Nelis

    2. Chapter Two

      On First Looking into Vergil's Homer (pages 26–36)

      Ralph Hexter

    3. Chapter Three

      The Development of the Aeneas Legend (pages 37–51)

      Sergio Casali

    4. Chapter Four

      Aeneas' Sacral Authority (pages 52–65)

      Vassiliki Panoussi

    5. Chapter Five

      Vergil's Roman (pages 66–79)

      J. D. Reed

    6. Chapter Six

      Vergil, Ovid, and the Poetry of Exile (pages 80–95)

      Michael C. J. Putnam

    7. Chapter Seven

      The Unfinished Aeneid? (pages 96–106)

      James J. O'Hara

    8. Chapter Eight

      The Life of Vergil before Donatus (pages 107–120)

      Fabio Stok

  5. Part Two: Medieval and Renaissance Receptions

    1. Chapter Nine

      Vergil and St. Augustine (pages 121–132)

      Garry Wills

    2. Chapter Ten

      Felix Casus (pages 133–146)

      Sarah Spence

    3. Chapter Eleven

      Vergil in Dante (pages 147–157)

      Rachel Jacoff

    4. Chapter Twelve

      Marvelous Vergil in The Ferrarese Renaissance (pages 158–172)

      Dennis Looney

    5. Chapter Thirteen

      Spenser's Vergil (pages 173–185)

      Philip Hardie

    6. Chapter Fourteen

      The Aeneid in the Age of Milton (pages 186–202)

      Henry Power

    7. Chapter Fifteen

      Practicing What They Preach? (pages 203–216)

      Yasmin Haskell

    8. Chapter Sixteen

      The Aeneid from the Aztecs to the Dark Virgin (pages 217–233)

      Andrew Laird

    9. Chapter Seventeen

      Vergil and Printed Books, 1500–1800 (pages 234–250)

      Craig Kallendorf

  6. Part Three: The Aeneid in Music and the Visual Arts

    1. Chapter Eighteen

      Vergil and the Pamphili Family in Piazza Navona, Rome (pages 251–269)

      Ingrid Rowland

    2. Chapter Nineteen

      Visual and Verbal Translation of Myth (pages 270–289)

      Reuben A. Brower

    3. Chapter Twenty

      The Æ;neas of Vergil (pages 290–310)

      Kristi Eastin

    4. Chapter Twenty-One

      Empire and Exile (pages 311–324)

      David Blayney Brown

    5. Chapter Twenty-Two

      Laocoons (pages 325–340)

      Glenn W. Most

    6. Chapter Twenty-Three

      Vergil in Music (pages 341–352)

      William Fitzgerald

  7. Part Four: The American Aeneid

    1. Chapter Twenty-Four

      Vergil and the Early American Republic (pages 353–365)

      Carl J. Richard

    2. Chapter Twenty-Five

      Why Did American Women Read the Aeneid? (pages 366–375)

      Caroline Winterer

    3. Chapter Twenty-Six

      Vergil in the Black American Experience (pages 376–390)

      Michele Valerie Ronnick

    4. Chapter Twenty-Seven

      Vergil and Founding Violence (pages 391–403)

      Michèle Lowrie

    5. Chapter Twenty-Eight

      Figuring the Founder (pages 404–417)

      Joy Connolly

  8. Part Five: Modern Reactions to the Aeneid

    1. Chapter Twenty-Nine

      Classic Vergil (pages 419–434)

      Kenneth Haynes

    2. Chapter Thirty

      Vergil's Detractors (pages 435–448)

      Joseph Farrell

    3. Chapter Thirty-One

      Mind the Gap (pages 449–464)

      Susanna Morton Braund

    4. Chapter Thirty-Two

      Vergil's Aeneid and Contemporary Poetry (pages 465–481)

      Karl Kirchwey

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      Bibliography (pages 482–530)

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      Index (pages 531–559)

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