Reading Vergil s Aeneid

Reading Vergil s Aeneid
Author: Christine G. Perkell
Publsiher: University of Oklahoma Press
Total Pages: 374
Release: 1999
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 080613139X

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Vergil's Aeneid has been considered a classic, if not the classic, of Western literature for two thousand years. In recent decades this famous poem has become the subject of fresh and searching controversy. What is the poem's fundamental meaning? Does it endorse or undermine values of empire and patriarchy? Is its world view comic or tragic? Many studies of the poem have focused primarily on selected books. The approach here is comprehensive. An introduction by editor Christine Perkell discusses the poem's historical background, its reception from antiquity to the present, and its most important themes. The book-by-book readings that follow both explicate the text and offer a variety of interpretations. Concluding topic chapters focus on the Aeneid as foundation story, the influence of Apollonius' Argonautica, the poem's female figures, and English translations of the Aeneid. Written in an accessible style and providing translations of all Latin passages, this volume will be of particular value to teachers and students of humanities courses as well as to specialists.

Reading Virgil

Reading Virgil
Author: Virgil,Peter Jones
Publsiher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2011-03-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521768665

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This book provides all the help that an intermediate Latin learner will need to read the first two books of the Aeneid.

Aeneid Book 1

Aeneid Book 1
Author: P Vergilius Maro
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2020-12-20
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: 9798580983592

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These books are intended to make Virgil's Latin accessible even to those with a fairly rudimentary knowledge of the language. There is a departure here from the format of the electronic books, with short sections generally being presented on single, or double, pages and endnotes entirely avoided. A limited number of additional footnotes is included, but only what is felt necessary for a basic understanding of the story and the grammar. Some more detailed footnotes have been taken from Conington's edition of the Aeneid.

A Reading of Virgil s Aeneid Book 2

A Reading of Virgil s Aeneid Book 2
Author: Paul Murgatroyd
Publsiher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2021-06-08
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9781527570726

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This book is aimed primarily at English-speaking Classical Civilization students taking courses in Virgil, epic and myth at schools, colleges and universities, but will also be of interest to students reading Virgil Aeneid 2 in Latin and to the general reader. The book provides something new for those studying Virgil in translation, offering a detailed and in-depth literary analysis of a single book of the Aeneid, one of the most famous and appealing parts of the whole poem. The book provides a brief introduction to Virgil and the Aeneid in general, and Book 2 in particular. It also offers literary analysis, in order to enhance critical appreciation and plain enjoyment, making the book really come alive. At the end of each chapter exercises, topics for investigation, and references to other scholars and Classical authors are included to extend the engagement with Virgil. At the end of the book, Appendix A contains translations of other versions of the fall of Troy, and Appendix B summarizes the rest of Aeneas’ narrative in Book 3 of the Aeneid (with translation of, and comment, on key passages).

Darkness Visible

Darkness Visible
Author: W. R. Johnson
Publsiher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2015-01-20
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780226252377

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One of the best books ever written on one of humanity’s greatest epics, W. R. Johnson’s classic study of Vergil’s Aeneid challenges centuries of received wisdom. Johnson rejects the political and historical reading of the epic as a record of the glorious prehistory of Rome and instead foregrounds Vergil’s enigmatic style and questioning of the heroic myths. With an approach to the text that is both grounded in scholarship and intensely personal, and in a style both rhetorically elegant and passionate, Johnson offers readings of specific passages that are nuanced and suggestive as he focuses on the “somber and nourishing fictions” in Vergil’s poem. A timeless work of scholarship, Darkness Visible will enthrall classicists as well as students and scholars of the history of criticism—specifically the way in which politics influence modern readings of the classics—and of poetry and literature.

Madness Unchained

Madness Unchained
Author: Lee Fratantuono
Publsiher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 452
Release: 2007
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0739122428

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The book aims at providing a coherent guide to the entirety of Virgil's Aeneid, with analysis of every scene and, in some cases, every line of crucial passages. The book tries to provide a guide to the vast bibliography and scholarly apparatus that has grown around Virgil studies (especially over the past century), and to offer some critical study of what Virgil's purpose and intent may have been in crafting his response to Augustus' political ascendancy in Rome, Rome's history of near-constant civil strife, and the myths of Rome's origins and their conflicting Trojan, Greek, and native Italian origins.

Aeneid Book 4

Aeneid Book 4
Author: P Vergilius Maro
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2020-12-31
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: 9798588955515

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These books are intended to make Virgil's Latin accessible even to those with a fairly rudimentary knowledge of the language. There is a departure here from the format of the electronic books, with short sections generally being presented on single, or double, pages and endnotes entirely avoided. A limited number of additional footnotes is included, but only what is felt necessary for a basic understanding of the story and the grammar. Some more detailed footnotes have been taken from Conington's edition of the Aeneid.

Parsed Vergil

Parsed Vergil
Author: Archibald A. Maclardy
Publsiher: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2005
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0865166307

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Completely Scanned-Parsed Vergil is an irreplaceable, primary resource for educators teaching or reading Book I of the Aeneid. The complete text of Aeneid, Book I, an interlinear translation, complete metrical scansion, and an accompanying, more polished translation are just part of this goldmine. At the bottom of each page below the text, each Latin word is completely parsed and the commentary includes useful references to the revised grammars of Bennett, Gildersleeve, Allen and Greenough, and Harkness and delves into word derivations and word frequencies, making this volume helpful for the competent reader of Latin as well as the novice. -- Amazon.com.