Virgil's Aeneid: A Critical DescriptionThe aim of the present study is to help all who approach the poem seriously (in Latin or in English) to read it with discerning appreciation. Neither a handbook nor commentary, the study provides a critical description, from a number of aspects, of the poetic structure. A detailed analysis of the twelve books is preceded by a preliminary exploration of the poem's central purpose, a careful reconstruction of the historical and artistic circumstances, and a description of the main outlines of the poem's structure. Two further chapters consider a number of theoretical problems, in particular the theory of the 'exploitation of form', and an analysis of the verbal fabric. |
Contents
FORM AND TECHNIQUE | 282 |
The Contribution of Tragedy | 323 |
STYLE | 350 |
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Achilles action Actium Aeneadae Aeneas Aeneid Amata ambiguity Anchises arma Ascanius atque Augustus battle begins Book 12 caesura Camilla Carthage Catullus Chapter character context course dative death of Pallas described detail Dido Dido's divine dramatic Drances duel echo Ennius epic Episode Evander example exploitation fairy-tale fate feel fighting follows function gods Greek Hector Helenus heroic historic present Homer horse Iliad impulse irony Italian Italy Iuturna Jove Juno killed Latin Latin Explorations Lausus less lines Lucretius Mackail meaning Messapus Mezentius Mnestheus narrative night Nisus and Euryalus nunc Palinurus Pallas passage perhaps phrase poem poet poetry Priam prophecy prose quae reaction reader rhetoric Roman scene Section sense Servius shield ships simile situation spear speech story structure style Suetonius sword syntactical syntax Tableau Tarchon technique tell tense things tradition tragic Trojan camp Troy Turnus Venus verb Vignette Virgil words