Christopher Tanfield

A Companion to the Aeneid in Translation: Volume 1

Introduction and Indices

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"For the first time, with this three-volume companion, students can access the full literary and historical significance of the Aeneid in translation through a commentary that unpicks Virgil's literary techniques, structural forms and historical resonances. Written by an experienced teacher and expert on the Aeneid this is an authoritative and accessible guide to students and non-specialists in Latin literature alike. Volume 1 contains a broad contextual introduction; the commentary on Books 1-6 are in Volume 2; and the commentary to Books 7-12 are in Volume 3"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. April 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 169mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781350499485
• ISBN-10: 135049948X
• Artikelnr.: 70166317

Autorenporträt

Christopher Tanfield

Inhaltsangabe

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