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Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom
"Elegiac Love and Death in Vergil's 'Aeneid' poses new questions about Vergil's pervasive engagement with elegy, both amatory and funerary, throughout his final epic endeavor, enhancing our understanding of the complexity of the Aeneid, presenting...
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"Elegiac Love and Death in Vergil's 'Aeneid' poses new questions about Vergil's pervasive engagement with elegy, both amatory and funerary, throughout his final epic endeavor, enhancing our understanding of the complexity of the Aeneid, presenting revisionary readings of key episodes and transformative interpretations of its main characters."
Elegiac Love and Death in Vergil's 'Aeneid' poses new questions about Vergil's pervasive engagement with elegy, both amatory and funerary, throughout his final epic endeavor, enhancing our understanding of the complexity of the Aeneid, presenting...
more
Elegiac Love and Death in Vergil's 'Aeneid' poses new questions about Vergil's pervasive engagement with elegy, both amatory and funerary, throughout his final epic endeavor, enhancing our understanding of the complexity of the Aeneid, presenting revisionary readings of key episodes and transformative interpretations of its main characters
Introduction: Vergil and Elegy in the Eclogues, Georgics, and Aeneid 1-61: From Caieta to Erato: Vergil's Elegiac Program (Aeneid 7.1-45)2: Conflicting Amores: The War's Beginnings in Aeneid 73: Wielding Passion as Power: Venus' Manipulation of Vulcan in Aeneid 84: Warriors in Love: Passion and Death in the Catalogues of Aeneid 7 and 105: From Amor to Mors: Passion and Devastation in Aeneid 12Epilogue: Vergil and Elegy Beyond the AeneidGlossary: Elegiac Concepts