Forms of Glory: Structure and Sense in Virgil's AeneidExploring the metaphorical world of Virgil's narrative, Hunt ranges throughout the poem viewing its part in relation to the structure of the whole as a unique aesthetic presentation. The result is penetrating application of organistic formalism to the entirety of the Aeneid and a strengthening of the bond between classical scholarship and contemporary criticism. |
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Promise and Performance | 17 |
Shadows and the Sea | 33 |
The Realm of Tragic Guilt | 53 |
Copyright | |
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achievement action Adam Parry Aeneas Aeneid Amata ambiguous Anchises appears Ascanius bitter Carthage chapter character climax Cloanthus close conflict contrast Creusa culminates death destiny destruction Dido and Turnus Dido's divine dream vision duel epic Euryalus fall fama fate fifth book fighting final fire fleet forces fourth book funeral games fury future glory gods guilt Hector hero heroic hope human Iapyx Ibid Italy J. W. Mackail Journal of Philology Juno Jupiter Juturna land later Latin Latium Lavinia meaning memory Mezentius mind Misenus mission Mnestheus mood moral night Nisus Nisus and Euryalus Palinurus Pallas parallel passage passion poem's portents Priam prophecy quae R. S. Conway Reckford revelation role scene Scheler shadows Sicily simile spirit suffering suggest sword symbol tenth book themes throughout the poem Tiber tragedy tragic Trojan Troy Troy's twelfth book umbras underworld Venus victory Virgil's Aeneid vocation whole wound