Virgil's Aeneid: Cosmos and Imperium

Virgil\'s Aeneid: Cosmos and Imperium (1986)......Page 1
ISBN: 0198140363......Page 3
Acknowledgements......Page 4
--> Contents......Page 6
List of Plates......Page 8
Abbreviations......Page 9
Introduction......Page 12
1. Poetry and Cosmology in Antiquity......Page 16
I. Poetry and Cosmology......Page 17
(a) Cosmological poetry in Greek and Roman antiquity......Page 18
(b) Images of the primitive poet in antiquity......Page 22
(c) Lucretius and the vates-concept......Page 28
(a) Homer, the universal poet......Page 33
(b) Homer, the poet of the universe......Page 36
(c) Virgil and allegory......Page 40
I. Cosmology and National Epic in the Georgics (Georgics 2.458-3.48)......Page 44
II. Natural Philosophy in the Aeneid\r......Page 62
(a) The Song of Iopas (Aeneid 1.740-746)......Page 63
i. The cosmic setting......Page 77
ii. The Speech of Anchises: Ennian and Ciceronian Dreams......Page 80
APPENDIX: The Song of Clymene (Georgics 4.345-347)......Page 94
I. The Tradition of Political Gigantomachic Imagery\r......Page 96
II. The Storm in Aeneid I......Page 101
III. The Shield of Aeneas: Actium\r......Page 108
IV. Hercules the Giant-Slayer: The Fight with Cacus......Page 121
V. Typhoeus and Turnus\r......Page 129
I. The Shield of Aeneas: The Gauls on the Capitol\r......Page 133
II. Pergamene and Augustan Ideology and Political Imagery\r......Page 138
(a) Pandarus and Bitias (Aeneid 9.672-755)......Page 156
(b) The final duel between Aeneas and Turnus......Page 160
(c) Aeneas and Aegaeon (Aeneid 10.565-70)......Page 169
5. Lucretius and the Aeneid......Page 172
I. Imitation of Lucretius in the Georgics......Page 173
II. Lucretius and Applied Cosmology......Page 182
(a) The cosmic outlook in Lucretius......Page 183
(b) Assimilation of man to nature in Lucretius......Page 187
(a) The forces of the storm......Page 191
(b) The thunderbolt as instrument of divine vengeance: Aeneid i and 12......Page 192
(c) The storm in Aeneid I......Page 195
i. Salmoneus (Aeneid 6.585 94)......Page 200
ii. The making of the fulmen......Page 202
(e) The end of the world......Page 204
(f) Chaos......Page 207
(g) Cataclysm and ecpyrosis......Page 208
IV. Epic Themes in the De Rerum Natura\r......Page 210
(a) Epic themes: intellectual quest and conquest......Page 211
(b) Storm and haven......Page 217
(c) Control of the storm......Page 219
i. Calming of the waters......Page 220
ii. Technological control of Nature......Page 224
(d) Gigantomachy......Page 226
(e) Hercules and the Site of Rome......Page 230
(a) The basic structures......Page 238
(b) Small-scale and large-scale; microcosmic procedures......Page 243
(c) Co-ordinated levels......Page 246
(d) Figure to reality......Page 251
VI. Virgil\'s Imitation of Lucretius\r......Page 252
APPENDIX: Lucrectioan Parallels for Virgil\'s Cave of the Winds (Aeneid 1.52-63, 81-83)......Page 256
6. Hyperbole......Page 260
I. The Functions of Hyperbole\r......Page 261
(a) Encomium and hyperbole in the Aeneid......Page 273
(b) Hyperbole: myth to legend. Mythical monsters in Aeneid 3......Page 278
i. Charybdis and the storm in Aeneid......Page 280
ii. Etna......Page 282
iii. Polyphemus......Page 283
(c) \'Theological space\': the vertical axis. A hyperbolical reading of Aeneid 4......Page 286
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(d) Hyperbole: mass to individual in battle scenes inthe last four books of the Aeneid......Page 304
APPENDIX: Sky-Reaching in Homer\r......Page 310
7. Universal Expressions in the Aeneid......Page 312
I. Distribution over two Terms\r......Page 314
(a) Heaven and Earth......Page 315
(b) Heaven and Sea......Page 317
(c). Earth and Sea......Page 321
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(d) Upper and Lower Worlds (Heaven and Hell)......Page 329
(e) Europe and Asia; the oikumene......Page 330
(f) Heaven, Earth, and Sea......Page 332
(g) The Four Elements......Page 344
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IV. Conclusions\r......Page 348
I. Criticism of the Shield since Lessing\r......Page 355
(a) The Shield as natural philosophy: imago mundi......Page 359
(b) The Shield as history: Agallis of Gercyra......Page 362
(a) Laudes urbis and the creation of a universe......Page 365
(b) The two cities......Page 377
(c) The Shield as climax of the Aeneid......Page 381
(d) Urbs - orbis......Page 383
IV. The Shield as Physical Object\r......Page 385
V. The Shouldering of the Shield (Aeneid 8.729-731)......Page 388
APPENDIX: The Burdens of the Shield and of Anchises\r......Page 394
Epilogue: Roman Retrospective and Prospective......Page 396
Index of Passages Discussed......Page 406
General Index......Page 412