A Companion to the Aeneid in Translation: Volume 1
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-49949-2 (ISBN)
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Volume 1 gives you a broad introduction to the historical and philosophical background of the epic; to Virgil's life and works; to the central human and divine characters met in the poem; to how the epic reflects Roman society and its values; to Virgil's literary and stylistic techniques; and to the reception of the epic in later periods.
This book also features maps and family trees so you can trace the travels and lineage of the characters. Plus, the general index is a vital reference tool. It can be used with Volumes 2 and 3, or indeed any edition of the Aeneid in Latin or English, as entries are pegged to line numbers.
Volumes 2 and 3 present a line-by-line commentary on the poem, with tables and box features illustrating key narrative arcs and structural patterns.
Christopher Tanfield taught Classics for many years and is an independent scholar based in the UK. He has written student editions of books of Virgil's Aeneid and Cicero's Philippics.
Foreword
Preface
1. Historical background
1.1: Rome’s Origins – Rival Traditions
1.2: Rome’s Origins – Archaeology
1.3: From Aeneas to Romulus – the Alban Kings (to 753 BCE)
1.4: The Roman Kings (to 509 BCE)
1.5: The Early Republic (to 133 BCE)
1.6: The Late Republic (from 133 BCE onwards)
1.7: Augustus in the Aeneid
1.8: Literary Sources for Roman History
2. Virgil’s Life and Works
2.1: Life
2.2: Virgilian Appendix.
2.3: Eclogues (or ‘Bucolics’)
2.4: Georgics6
2.5: A Planned Career?
3. Main characters
3.1: Characterisation in the Aeneid
3.2: Aeneas
3.3: Turnus
3.4: Dido
3.5: Ascanius
3.6: Anchises
3.7: Latinus and Evander
3.8: Amata
3.9: Lavinia
3.10: Camilla
4. The Gods and Fate
4.1: Greek Versus Roman Gods
4.2: Olympian Gods in Homer
4.3: Olympian Gods in the Aeneid
4.4: Fate
4.5: Gods in Particular
4.6: Gigantomachy
4.7: Orphism and Pythagoreanism
5. Philosophical background
5.1: Plato and the Academy (First Half of the Fourth Century BCE)
5.2: Aristotle and the Peripatetics (from the Late Fourth Century BCE)
5.3: Epicureanism - History
5.4: Stoicism – History
5.5: Stoicism, Epicureanism and the Aeneid
5.6: Cicero’s Philosophical Writings
6. Society
6.1: Romanness
6.2: Family
6.3: Women - at Rome and in the Aeneid
6.4: Religion
6.5: Battles
7. Literary aspects
7.1: Structure
7.2: The Hero
7.3: Narratology
7.4: Ekphrasis
7.5: Similes
7.6: Speeches
7.7: Diction
7.8: Metre
8. Reading the Aeneid
8.1: Intratextuality – Self-Allusion
8.2: Intertextuality, Narrow Sense – External Allusion
8.3: Allusion and Subjectivity
8.4: Epic and other Literary Antecedents
9. Reception
9.1: The First 150 Years after Virgil
9.2: The Second to Fifth Centuries – Servius and Macrobius
9.3: The Middle Ages and Renaissance - Survival
9.4: 16th to 19th Centuries – Resurgence and Eclipse
9.5: 20th and 21st Centuries - Re-evaluation
9.6: Literary Theory
10. Translating the Aeneid (into English)
11. Maps
12. Family Tree of the Royal Houses of Greece and Troy
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index to the Introduction
Index to the Commentaries in Volumes 2 and 3
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 6.2.2025 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 3 bw illus |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 169 x 244 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-350-49949-8 / 1350499498 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-49949-2 / 9781350499492 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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