A Companion to Vergil's Aeneid and its Tradition (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World)

A Companion to Vergil\'s Aeneid and its Tradition (2010)\r......Page 1
BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO THE ANCIENT WORLD......Page 4
ISBN: 9781405175777......Page 5
--> Contents......Page 6
Figures......Page 9
Plates......Page 10
Notes on Contributors......Page 11
Preface......Page 16
Acknowledgments......Page 17
Note on References......Page 18
Introduction......Page 20
PART ONE - The Aeneid in Antiquity......Page 30
CHAPTER ONE - Vergil’s Library......Page 32
APPENDIX......Page 43
FURTHER READING......Page 44
CHAPTER TWO - On First Looking into Vergil’s Homer......Page 45
FURTHER READING......Page 55
Learning from the Greeks......Page 56
The Prophecy of Poseidon......Page 59
From the Promised to the Real Rescue......Page 60
The Voyage of the Legend from Troy to Italy......Page 62
Italian Events: The Fusion with the Twins Story......Page 65
Vergil’s Choices......Page 68
FURTHER READING......Page 70
CHAPTER FOUR - Aeneas’ Sacral Authority......Page 71
From Family Burial Rites to Public Death Ritual......Page 75
Successful Foundation......Page 77
Sacral Quandaries: Public Death Ritual and Supplication......Page 81
FURTHER READING......Page 84
I......Page 85
II......Page 89
III......Page 91
IV......Page 95
FURTHER READING......Page 98
CHAPTER SIX - Vergil, Ovid, and the Poetry of Exile......Page 99
NOTES......Page 112
FURTHER READING......Page 114
CHAPTER SEVEN - The Unfinished Aeneid?......Page 115
FURTHER READING......Page 125
Introduction......Page 126
Suetonius and his Predecessors......Page 127
Varius, Vergil’s Will, and the Publication of the Aeneid......Page 129
Choices, Selections, and Omissions by Suetonius......Page 131
From Suetonius to Donatus......Page 136
The Other Ancient Vitae......Page 138
FURTHER READING......Page 139
PART TWO - Medieval and Renaissance Receptions......Page 140
CHAPTER NINE - Vergil and St. Augustine......Page 142
Dido and Monnica......Page 144
Teaching Vergil......Page 145
Renouncing Vergil......Page 147
Using Vergil......Page 148
Remembering Vergil......Page 150
FURTHER READING......Page 151
CHAPTER TEN - Felix Casus - The Dares and Dictys Legends of Aeneas......Page 152
FURTHER READING......Page 164
CHAPTER ELEVEN - Vergil in Dante......Page 166
Inventions......Page 168
Refiguring the Aeneid......Page 170
Rome......Page 173
FURTHER READING......Page 176
Introduction......Page 177
Boiardo and Vergil......Page 178
Romance and Epic in Ariosto’s Prose......Page 183
Orazio Toscanella Reading the Marvelous......Page 187
FURTHER READING......Page 191
CHAPTER THIRTEEN - Spenser’s Vergil - The Faerie Queene and the Aeneid......Page 192
Spenser’s Vergil......Page 193
Venuses and Didos......Page 194
Epic and Romance, Vergil and Ovid......Page 199
The Extent and Depth of Spenser’s Vergilianism......Page 200
Mirrorings and Repetitions......Page 202
FURTHER READING......Page 204
CHAPTER FOURTEEN - The Aeneid in the Age of Milton......Page 205
NOTES......Page 220
FURTHER READING......Page 221
Introduction: Vergil Recomposed......Page 222
Towards a Vergilian “Way of Proceeding”......Page 226
Cursus (and Recursus) Virgilianus......Page 232
FURTHER READING......Page 234
CHAPTER SIXTEEN - The Aeneid from the Aztecs to the Dark Virgin......Page 236
I......Page 237
II......Page 242
III......Page 245
IV......Page 250
FURTHER READING......Page 252
I......Page 253
II......Page 254
III......Page 258
IV......Page 262
V......Page 268
FURTHER READING......Page 269
PART THREE - The Aeneid in Music and the Visual Arts......Page 270
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN - Vergil and the Pamphili Family in Piazza Navona, Rome......Page 272
FURTHER READING......Page 288
CHAPTER NINETEEN - Visual and Verbal Translation of Myth - Neptune in Vergil, Rubens, and Dryden......Page 289
NOTE......Page 307
FURTHER READING......Page 308
Image and Text: The Significance of the Latin Captions......Page 309
A Unified Performance......Page 321
FURTHER READING......Page 336
CHAPTER TWENTY ONE - Empire and Exile - Vergil in Romantic Art......Page 338
FURTHER READING......Page 350
Vergil’s Laocoon......Page 352
Laocoon before Vergil......Page 353
Laocoon on the Esquiline......Page 356
Laocoon’s Renaissance......Page 362
FURTHER READING......Page 367
CHAPTER TWENTY THREE - Vergil in Music......Page 368
FURTHER READING......Page 378
PART FOUR - The American Aeneid......Page 380
CHAPTER TWENTY FOUR - Vergil and the Early American Republic......Page 382
FURTHER READING......Page 392
CHAPTER TWENTY FIVE - Why Did American Women Read the Aeneid?......Page 393
FURTHER READING......Page 402
Introduction......Page 403
Harry Stillwell Edwards’ Eneas Africanus......Page 405
The Context: African Americans and American Classicism......Page 406
Vergil and African American Education......Page 408
Educators: Scarborough and Lightfoot......Page 411
Gwendolyn Brooks’ Anniad......Page 413
FURTHER READING......Page 417
CHAPTER TWENTY SEVEN - Vergil and Founding Violence......Page 418
Law-Making and Law-Preserving Violence......Page 419
Mythical Violence......Page 422
Divine Violence......Page 423
Vergil and the Roman Exemplum......Page 427
FURTHER READING......Page 430
CHAPTER TWENTY EIGHT - Figuring the Founder - Vergil and the Challenge of Autocracy......Page 431
FURTHER READING......Page 444
PART FIVE - Modern Reactions to the Aeneid......Page 446
CHAPTER TWENTY NINE - Classic Vergil......Page 448
NOTES......Page 459
FURTHER READING......Page 461
CHAPTER THIRTY - Vergil’s Detractors......Page 462
Ipsis inimicitiis gloriosus......Page 463
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy......Page 464
The Unfinished Aeneid......Page 465
The Curriculum Author par excellence......Page 466
Untranslatable Vergil......Page 468
A Style, But Not a Life......Page 469
Sheer Cluelessness......Page 470
Vergil and Homer......Page 471
Vergil and Dante......Page 473
Conclusion......Page 474
FURTHER READING......Page 475
CHAPTER THIRTY ONE - Mind the Gap - On Foreignizing Translations of the Aeneid......Page 476
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 490
FURTHER READING......Page 491
Introduction......Page 492
Robert Lowell......Page 495
Allen Tate......Page 498
Eavan Boland......Page 500
W.H. Auden......Page 502
Rosanna Warren......Page 503
Louise Glück......Page 505
Mark Strand......Page 506
Conclusion......Page 507
FURTHER READING......Page 508
Bibliography......Page 509
Index......Page 558