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A Companion to Vergil's Aeneid and its Tradition presents a collection of original interpretive essays that represent an innovative addition to the body of Vergil scholarship.
* Provides fresh approaches to traditional Vergil scholarship and new insights into unfamiliar aspects of Vergil's textual history
* Features contributions by an international team of the most distinguished scholars
* Represents a distinctively original approach to Vergil scholarship
List of contents
Illustrations viii
Notes on Contributors x
Preface xv
Acknowledgments xvi
Note on References xvii
Introduction 1
Joseph Farrell and Michael C.J. Putnam
PART I The Aeneid in Antiquity 11
1 Vergil's Library 13
Damien P. Nelis
2 On First Looking into Vergil's Homer 26
Ralph Hexter
3 The Development of the Aeneas Legend 37
Sergio Casali
4 Aeneas' Sacral Authority 52
Vassiliki Panoussi
5 Vergil's Roman 66
J.D. Reed
6 Vergil, Ovid, and the Poetry of Exile 80
Michael C.J. Putnam
7 The Unfinished Aeneid? 96
James J. O'Hara
8 The Life of Vergil before Donatus 107
Fabio Stok
PART II Medieval and Renaissance Receptions 121
9 Vergil and St. Augustine 123
Garry Wills
10 Felix Casus: The Dares and Dictys Legends of Aeneas 133
Sarah Spence
11 Vergil in Dante 147
Rachel Jacoff
12 Marvelous Vergil in the Ferrarese Renaissance 158
Dennis Looney
13 Spenser's Vergil: The Faerie Queene and the Aeneid 173
Philip Hardie
14 The Aeneid in the Age of Milton 186
Henry Power
15 Practicing What They Preach? Vergil and the Jesuits 203
Yasmin Haskell
16 The Aeneid from the Aztecs to the Dark Virgin: Vergil, Native Tradition, and Latin Poetry in Colonial Mexico from Sahagún's Memoriales (1563) to Villerías' Guadalupe (1724) 217
Andrew Laird
17 Vergil and Printed Books, 1500-1800 234
Craig Kallendorf
PART III The Aeneid in Music and the Visual Arts 251
18 Vergil and the Pamphili Family in Piazza Navona, Rome 253
Ingrid Rowland
19 Visual and Verbal Translation of Myth: Neptune in Vergil, Rubens, and Dryden 270
Reuben A. Brower
20 The AEneas of Vergil: A Dramatic Performance Presented in the Original Latin by John Ogilby 290
Kristi Eastin
21 Empire and Exile: Vergil in Romantic Art 311
David Blayney Brown
22 Laocoons 325
Glenn W. Most
23 Vergil in Music 341
William Fitzgerald
PART IV The American Aeneid 353
24 Vergil and the Early American Republic 355
Carl J. Richard
25 Why Did American Women Read the Aeneid? 366
Caroline Winterer
26 Vergil in the Black American Experience 376
Michele Valerie Ronnick
27 Vergil and Founding Violence 391
Michèle Lowrie
28 Figuring the Founder: Vergil and the Challenge of Autocracy 404
Joy Connolly
PART V Modern Reactions to the Aeneid 419
29 Classic Vergil 421
Kenneth Haynes
30 Vergil's Detractors 435
Joseph Farrell
31 Mind the Gap: On Foreignizing Translations of the Aeneid 449
Susanna Morton Braund
32 Vergil's Aeneid and Contemporary Poetry 465
Karl Kirchwey
Bibliography 482
Index 531
About the author
Joseph Farrell is Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of several books and papers on Latin literature, including
Vergil's Georgics and the Traditions of Ancient Epic (1991), and
Latin Language and Latin Culture from Ancient to Modern Times (2001).
Michael C. J. Putnam is MacMillan Professor of Classics and Professor of Comparative Literature, Emeritus, at Brown University. His works include
Maffeo Vegio: Short Epics (2004),
Poetic Interplay: Catullus and Horace (2006), and
The Virgilian Tradition: The First Fifteen Hundred Years (with Jan Ziolkowski, 2008)
Summary
A Companion to Vergil s Aeneid and its Tradition presents a collection of original interpretive essays by an international team of renowned scholars. Topics covered include Vergil's handling of sources; the history of Vergil reception in literature; and the enduring influence of Vergilian themes in prose, music, and art.
Report
"In all, the volume has much to recommend it, reaching the heights of sublimity more often than sending its readers to purgatory. For such an enormous enterprise the editors are to be congratulated, especially as it is well-produced, with very few errors or problems." (Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 16 August 2011)
"Cooperation among the various authors is a significant feature of the book... In sum, this volume includes something for any lover of Virgil." (Choice, January 2011)
"This is a useful reference for scholars in a number of disciplines." (Book News, Inc., November 2010)
