Madness Unchained
Subtitle: A Reading of Virgil's Aeneid
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: July 28, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780739112373
Subjects: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Non-Classifiable; Ancient and Classical; Poetry; Literary Criticism; Aeneis; Virgil; Latin
Description: Madness Unchained is a comprehensive introduction to and study of Virgil's Aeneid. The book moves through Virgil's epic scene by scene and offers a detailed explication of not only all the major (and many minor) difficulties of interpretation, but also provides a cohesive argument that explores Virgil's point in writing this epic of Roman mythology and Augustan propaganda: the role of fury or madness in Rome's national identity.