Elegiac Love and Death in Vergil's Aeneid

Elegiac Love and Death in Vergil's Aeneid
Author: Sarah L. McCallum
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2024-01-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0192863002

Elegiac Love and Death in Vergil's 'Aeneid' poses new questions about Vergil's pervasive engagement with elegy, both amatory and funerary, throughout his final epic endeavor. A foundational discussion of elegiac experimentation in the Eclogues, Georgics, and Aeneid 1-6 explores the aesthetic and conceptual development of destructive Vergilian amor (passion). The unique emphasis of subsequent chapters on the amatory and funerary elegiac dimensions of crucial episodes in Aeneid 7-12 illuminates the intergeneric character of Vergil's martial maius opus. A detailed examination of the inter- and intratextual strands of pivotal moments in the Aeneid evinces Vergil's intense engagement with literary predecessors and contemporaries, his evolving artistic vision, and his enduring influence on subsequent Roman poets. Each chapter of this volume enhances our understanding of the generic complexity of the Aeneid, presenting revisionary readings of key episodes and transformative interpretations of its main characters.

A Commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses: Volume 1, General Introduction and Books 1-6

A Commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses: Volume 1, General Introduction and Books 1-6
Author: Alessandro Barchiesi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 786
Release: 2023-12-31
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1009197606

Comprising fifteen books and over two hundred and fifty myths, Ovid's Metamorphoses is one of the longest extant Latin poems from the ancient world and one of the most influential works in Western culture. It is an epic on desire and transgression that became a gateway to the entire world of pagan mythology and visual imagination. This, the first complete commentary in English, covers all aspects of the text – from textual interpretation to poetics, imagination, and ideology – and will be useful as a teaching aid and an orientation for those who are interested in the text and its reception. Historically, the poem's audience includes readers interested in opera and ballet, psychology and sexuality, myth and painting, feminism and posthumanism, vegetarianism and metempsychosis (to name just a few outside the area of Classical Studies).

A Commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses

A Commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses
Author: Alessandro Barchiesi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 785
Release: 2023-12-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 0521895790

The first complete commentary in English on Ovid's Metamorphoses, covering textual interpretation, poetics, imagination, and ideology.