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Produktbild: A Companion to the Aeneid in Translation: Volume 1

A Companion to the Aeneid in Translation: Volume 1 Introduction and Indices

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Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

23.01.2025

Verlag

Bloomsbury USA

Seitenzahl

304

Maße (L/B/H)

16.9/24.4/1.9 cm

Gewicht

520 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-350-49949-2

Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

23.01.2025

Verlag

Bloomsbury USA

Seitenzahl

304

Maße (L/B/H)

16.9/24.4/1.9 cm

Gewicht

520 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-350-49949-2

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Libri GmbH
Europaallee 1
36244 Bad Hersfeld
DE

Email: gpsr@libri.de

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  • Produktbild: A Companion to the Aeneid in Translation: Volume 1

  • 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