Title: Oxford readings in Vergil's Aeneid /
Authors: Harrison, S. J.
Date: 1990
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Physical description: x, 477 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: P
Contents: Some views of the Aeneid in the twentieth century / S J Harrison -- The purpose of the Aeneid / R D Williams -- The pictures on Dido's temple (Aeneid I 450-93) / R D Williams -- Divine action in Aeneid book 2 / E L Harrison -- Servius and the Helen episode / G P Goold -- Dido in the light of history / N M Horsfall -- Dido's Culpa / Niall Rudd -- The taciturnity of Aeneas / D C Feeney -- The sixth book of the Aeneid / R D Williams -- The world of the dead in book 6 of the Aeneid / Friedrich Solmsen -- The bough and the gate / D A West -- Virgil's second Iliad / W S Anderson -- Some aspects of the structure of Aeneid 7 / Eduard Fraenkel -- Hercules in the Aeneid / G K Galinsky -- Cernere erat: the shield of Aeneas / D A West -- Numanus remulus: ethnography and propaganda in Aeneid 9.598ff / N M Horsfall -- Virgil and the politics of war / R O A M Lyne -- The reconciliations of Juno / D C Feeney -- Aeneas and the stoic ideal / C M Bowra -- Aeneas imperator: Roman generalship in an epic context / R G M Nisbet -- Virgil's Aeneid and Homer / G N Knauer -- The language of Virgil and Horace / L P Wilkinson -- Multiple-correspondence similes in the Aeneid / D A West -- Cleverness in Virgilian imitation / E L Harrison -- Anti-antiquarianism in the Aeneid / F H Sandbach -- Virgil and the conquest of chaos / N M Horsefall.
Notes: Essays originally published 1933-1987.
Subject headings (LCSH): Aeneas (Legendary character)--In literature.; Epic poetry, Latin--History and criticism.; Rome--In literature.; Virgil. Aeneis.