This volume presents a collection of pieces from a celebrated world-class scholar and interpreter of Latin poetry, focusing on the interpretation of Virgil's Aeneid.. It forms the sequel to two widely influential earlier books on Virgil by the same author and translates and adds to a collection of papers published in Italian in 2002. Its central concern is the way in which Virgil reworks earlier poetry (especially that of Homer) at the most detailed level to produce very broad literary and emotional effects. Gian Biaggio Conte explores a central issue in Virgilian studies, that of how the Aeneid manages to create a new and effective mode of epic in a period when the genre appears to be debased or exhausted.
Author(s): Gian Biagio Conte
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 240
Contents......Page 8
1. Introduction......Page 10
2. The Virgilian Paradox: An Epic of Drama and Pathos......Page 32
3. Anatomy of a Style: Enallage and the New Sublime......Page 67
4. Aristaeus, Orpheus, and the Georgics: once again......Page 132
5. The Strategy of Contradiction: On the Dramatic Form of the Aeneid......Page 159
6. Defensor Vergilii: Richard Heinze on Virgil’s Epic Technique......Page 179
7. Towards a New Exegesis of Virgil: Reconsiderations and Proposals......Page 193
8. The Meeting of Stylistics and Textual Criticism......Page 221
9. Proems in the Middle......Page 228
Bibliography......Page 241
Index locorum......Page 253
L......Page 258
W......Page 259
