Fate and the Hero in Virgil''s Aeneid - Stoic World Fate and Human Responsibility

List of contents

Preface; Introduction; 1. Stoic world fate and Virgil's Aeneid; 2. Fate and the human responsibility of dido and Aeneas in Aeneid 4: a case study; 3. Stoic world fate and the gods of the Aeneid; 4. Stoic world fate and the humans of the Aeneid; 5. Stoic world fate and roman imperium in the Aeneid; Tragedy and didacticism; Bibliography.

About the author

GRAHAM ZANKER is Professor Emeritus in the Classics Department at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand and Affiliate Professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Adelaide. His publications include Realism in Alexandrian Poetry: A Literature and Its Audience (1987), The Heart of Achilles: Characterization and Personal Ethics in the Iliad (1994), Modes of Viewing in Hellenistic Poetry and Art (2004) and Herodas: Mimiambs (2009).

Summary

Explores how Virgil's incorporation of Stoic thought on human responsibility and providential world fate into the Aeneid permits a reassessment of the characterisation and morality of the poem's gods and heroes. Of interest to both students and professional scholars.

Product details

• Authors: Graham Zanker, Graham (University of Canterbury Zanker, Zanker Graham
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2023
• EAN: 9781009319874
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0931987-4
• No. of pages: 300
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; POETRY / General, Poetry, HISTORY / Ancient / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval