Virgil's Ascanius
Title | Virgil's Ascanius PDF eBook |
Author | Anne Rogerson |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 247 |
Release | 2017-01-20 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107115396 |
Offers a fresh interpretation of Virgil's Aeneid via a detailed study of its child hero, Ascanius, young son of Aeneas.
Virgil's Aeneid
Title | Virgil's Aeneid PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Paschalis |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 464 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780198146889 |
Paschalis offers a new reading of the whole Aeneid based on the meaning of proper names and using the scene of Laocoon and the Trojan Horse as a model. He sheds fresh light on every episode and book of the epic from the storm of Aeneid 1 to the death of Turnus, and reveals a sustained, pervasive, and deep-going exploitation of the meaning of names.
AEneid
Title | AEneid PDF eBook |
Author | Virgil |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 454 |
Release | 1909 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Fathers and Sons in Virgil's Aeneid
Title | Fathers and Sons in Virgil's Aeneid PDF eBook |
Author | M. Owen Lee |
Publisher | SUNY Press |
Total Pages | 224 |
Release | 1979-01-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780873954020 |
Narrative summary of Virgil's epic poem.
Virgil, Aeneid 4
Title | Virgil, Aeneid 4 PDF eBook |
Author | Lee M. Fratantuono |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 994 |
Release | 2022-08-29 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 9004521445 |
This volume provides a new critical text, translation, and exhaustive commentary on one of Virgil’s most famous books.
Virgil's Double Cross
Title | Virgil's Double Cross PDF eBook |
Author | David Quint |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | 244 |
Release | 2018-05-22 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0691179387 |
The message of Virgil's Aeneid once seemed straightforward enough: the epic poem returned to Aeneas and the mythical beginnings of Rome in order to celebrate the city's present world power and to praise its new master, Augustus Caesar. Things changed when late twentieth-century readers saw the ancient poem expressing their own misgivings about empire and one-man rule. In this timely book, David Quint depicts a Virgil who consciously builds contradiction into the Aeneid. The literary trope of chiasmus, reversing and collapsing distinctions, returns as an organizing signature in Virgil's writing: a double cross for the reader inside the Aeneid's story of nation, empire, and Caesarism. Uncovering verbal designs and allusions, layers of artfulness and connections to Roman history, Quint's accessible readings of the poem's famous episodes--the fall of Troy, the story of Dido, the trip to the Underworld, and the troubling killing of Turnus—disclose unsustainable distinctions between foreign war/civil war, Greek/Roman, enemy/lover, nature/culture, and victor/victim. The poem's form, Quint shows, imparts meanings it will not say directly. The Aeneid's life-and-death issues—about how power represents itself in grand narratives, about the experience of the defeated and displaced, and about the ironies and revenges of history—resonate deeply in the twenty-first century. This new account of Virgil's masterpiece reveals how the Aeneid conveys an ambivalence and complexity that speak to past and present.
All Things Ancient Rome [2 volumes]
Title | All Things Ancient Rome [2 volumes] PDF eBook |
Author | Anne Leen |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | 558 |
Release | 2023-06-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Through roughly 160 alphabetically arranged reference entries, this book surveys the material culture and social institutions of Ancient Rome. Ancient Rome was one of the great civilizations of antiquity. Honoring the contributions of their cultural forebearers-who included Etruscans, Asians, and Egyptians as well as Greeks-Roman artists, writers, and thinkers freely borrowed where tradition dictated and innovated where personal talent and imagination directed, forging a unique creative experience that formed the basis of Western European artistic, literary, and philosophical production for 2,000 years. While other reference works typically examine battles and politicians, this book focuses on Roman social history and daily life, painting a detailed picture of the material culture and social institutions of Ancient Rome. A timeline highlights key events, while an overview essay surveys the achievements of the Romans. Reference entries provide objective information about art, architecture, literature, commerce, transportation, government, religion, and other topics related to Roman life. Each entry provides cross-references and suggestions for further reading, and some provide sidebars of interesting facts along with excerpts from primary source documents. The book closes with a selected, general bibliography of resources suitable for student research.