Fate and the Hero in Virgil's Aeneid

Fate and the Hero in Virgil's Aeneid
Author: Graham Zanker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2023-04-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 1009319868

This book explores how Virgil in his Aeneid incorporates the ancient Stoics' thinking about how humans can exercise moral responsibility and how this can affect providential world fate. The third-century BC philosopher Chrysippus of Soli located this freedom in the way we can assent to courses of action, and Graham Zanker innovatively demonstrates how Virgil appropriates this concept in the way that Jupiter and Aeneas can assent to the world fate in which they have discovered they must play a part, or Juno and Dido can withhold their assent to it. Indeed, Virgil even offers the model to no-one less than Augustus: the emperor is invited to give his assent to ruling what was believed to be his 'world-wide' empire justly. The book is accessible to both students and professional scholars of the Aeneid, with all Greek and Latin translated into idiomatic English.

Aeneid

Aeneid
Author: Virgil
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2012-03-12
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0486113973

Monumental epic poem tells the heroic story of Aeneas, a Trojan who escaped the burning ruins of Troy to found Lavinium, the parent city of Rome, in the west.

Aeneid Book 4

Aeneid Book 4
Author: P Vergilius Maro
Publisher:
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2020-12-31
Genre:
ISBN:

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.

Aeneid Book 1

Aeneid Book 1
Author: P Vergilius Maro
Publisher:
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2020-12-20
Genre:
ISBN:

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.

Fate and the Hero in Virgil's Aeneid

Fate and the Hero in Virgil's Aeneid
Author: Graham Zanker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2023-04-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1009319876

Argues that Stoic thought on human responsibility and world fate plays a key role in the Aeneid's characterisation and morality.

Aeneid 2

Aeneid 2
Author: Randall Toth Ganiban
Publisher: Focus Vergil Aeneid Commentaries
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2008
Genre: Drama
ISBN:

This book is part of a series of individual volumes covering Books 1-6 of Vergil's Aeneid. Each book will include an introduction, notes, bibliography, commentary and glossary, and be edited by an expert in the field. These individual volumes will form a combined Vol 1-6 book as well.

The Essential Aeneid

The Essential Aeneid
Author: Virgil
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2006-03-15
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1603840613

Stanley Lombardo's deft abridgment of his 2005 translation of the Aeneid preserves the arc and weight of Virgil's epic by presenting major books in their entirety and abridged books in extended passages seamlessly fitted together with narrative bridges. W. R. Johnson's Introduction, a shortened version of his masterly Introduction to that translation, will be welcomed by both beginning and seasoned students of the Aeneid, and by students of Roman history, classical mythology, and Western civilization.

Augustan Culture

Augustan Culture
Author: Karl Galinsky
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 500
Release: 1998-02-15
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780691058900

Weaving analysis and narrative throughout an illustrated text, the author provides an account of the major ideas of the Augustan age, and offers an interpretation of the creative tensions and contradictions that made for its vitality and influence.

Virgil, a Study in Civilized Poetry

Virgil, a Study in Civilized Poetry
Author: Brooks Otis
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Total Pages: 460
Release: 1995
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780806127828

In this classic study, Brooks Otis presents Virgil as a radically different poet from any of his Greek or Roman predecessors. Virgil molded the ancient epic tradition to his own Roman contemporary aims and succeeded in making mythical and legendary figures meaningful to a sophisticated, unmythical age. Otis begins and ends his study with the Aeneid and includes chapters on the Bucolics and the Georgics. A new foreword by Ward W. Briggs, Jr., places Otis’s groundbreaking achievement in the context of past and present Virgilian scholarship.