Written by eminent scholar David O. Ross, this guide helps readers to engage with the poetry, thought, and background of Virgil's great epic, suggesting both the depth and the beauty of Virgil's poetic images and the mental images with which the...
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Written by eminent scholar David O. Ross, this guide helps readers to engage with the poetry, thought, and background of Virgil's great epic, suggesting both the depth and the beauty of Virgil's poetic images and the mental images with which the Romans lived. Guides readers through the complexity of Virgil's poetic style and imagery All extracts are translated, with original Latin given when necessary Provides useful historical and social context in which to understand the poem as it was viewed in its time Includes short introductions to important topics such as Roman religion and the Roman co
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Virgil's Aeneid: A Reader's Guide; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1 Virgil's Hero; Three Scenes of Crisis; The Hero and Personal Loss; The Hero as Warrior (10.510-605); Some Observations on Character; 2 The Victims; Dido; Nisus and Euryalus; Pallas and Lausus; Some Aspects of Turnus; Camilla; Italy; 3 Fate and the Gods; The Roman Gods; The Gods in the Aeneid; Fate in the Aeneid; 4 Virgil's Troy; The Roman Troy; The Destruction of Troy ( Aeneid Book II); Other Images of the Destruction of Troy (6.494-547, 1.450-93); Andromache's Troy Restored (3.294-505); The Trojan Games (5.104-544)
The Transformation of Troy (5.485-544)The Iusus Troiae (5.545-603); 5 Rome, the rerum imago; Jupiter's Revelation (1.254-96); Anchises' Review (6.756-892); The Shield of Aeneas (8.626-728); 6 Virgil, His Life and Works; His Life and Times; The Eclogues; The Georgics; Appendix: The Latin Hexameter; Word Accent; Verse Ictus; Accent and Ictus; Caesura and Diaeresis; The Third-Foot Caesura; The First Foot; The Hexameter Line; The Catullan Molossus; General Index; Index of Passages
