Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic IdentityPrinceton University Press, 29 ביוני 2021 - 384 עמודים "This book, based on the prestigious Martin Lectures, given annually at Oberlin College, offers a major new interpretation of Vergil's Aeneid. Scholars have tended to view Vergil's poem as an attempt to combine aspects of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey into a single epic. Joseph Farrell argues, by contrast, that Vergil's aim is not to combine them, but instead to stage a contest to decide which Homeric hero the Aeneid will most resemble. The goddess Juno works, in the poem, to make it another Iliad - a tragedy of death and destruction - against the narrator's apparent intention to make it another Odyssey - a comedy of homecoming and marriage. Farrell begins by illustrating his method of interpretation and its advantages over previous treatments of Vergil and Homer. He then turns to what he regards as the most fruitful of interpretative possibilities. Ancient ethical philosophy treated Homer's principal heroes, Achilles in the Iliad and Odysseus in the Odyssey, as key examples of heroic or "kingly" behaviour, but also stressed their fundamental differences from one another. Achilles is an intransigent, solipsistic man of violence, Odysseus one of intelligence, perspicacity, flexibility, and self-control. Many ancient thinkers contrast the heroes in these terms, with none imagining a stable combination of the two. Farrell argues that this supports his contention that Vergil does not aim to combine them, but to stage a Homeric contest for the soul of his hero and his poem. The final chapter considers the political relevance of this contest to Rome's leader, Caesar Augustus, who counted Aeneas as the mythical founder of his own family. An ultimately Iliadic or an Odyssean Aeneid would reflect in very different ways upon the ethical legitimacy of Augustus' regime"-- |
תוכן
Introduction | 1 |
Homers Aeneid | 7 |
The Ethical Aeneid | 28 |
Arms and a Man | 41 |
of Horaces Homer | 85 |
Third Ways | 114 |
Plots in the Aeneid | 167 |
Some Conclusions | 194 |
Books 58 Aeneas Heroic Education | 224 |
Books 912 Becoming Achilles | 253 |
mene in and mênin | 293 |
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331 | |
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity <span dir=ltr>Joseph Farrell</span> תצוגה מקדימה מוגבלת - 2021 |
Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity <span dir=ltr>Joseph Farrell</span> תצוגה מקדימה מוגבלת - 2023 |
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
Achaemenides Achillean Achilles Aeneas Aeneid Aeolus Ajax Alcinous Anchises ancient anger Apollonian Apollonius Argonautic Argonautica armor Athena Barchiesi battle beginning Cairns Callimachus Carthage chapter character cited Commentary on Vergil's critics Cyclic death Deception of Zeus Dekel Dido Dido's discussion divine Drances Ennius entire Epic Cycle episode ethical Evander Evander's fact fate follows genre goddess Greek Hector Hera Heracles Hercules hero hero's heroic homecoming Homeric poems Homeric program Horace Iliad and Odyssey imitation important intertextual Ithaca Juno Juno's Jupiter king Knauer Latin Latium Livius Macrobius motif Naevius narrative narrator Nelis Neptune Odys Odyssean Odyssey P. R. Hardie Pallanteum passage Patroclus perspective Phaeacians Phaeacis plot poem's poetry poets possible Punic Pyrrhus reader reference role Roman Scheria seems sense Servius Sibyl specific storm story tells theme tion tragedy tragic Trojan Trojan War Turnus Ulysses underworld Venus Vergil's Aeneid wanderings word Zeus