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Aeneid, Book XI
Book XI of the Aeneid covers four crucial days in Aeneas' struggle against the Latins. In it, Virgil gives us the funeral of Pallas, the great Latin war-council, Turnus' plan to ambush Aeneas, and the aristeia and death of Camilla. K. W. Gransden sees the second half of the Roman national epic as "Virgil's Iliad." In his introduction and commentary, he relates the themes and structure of Book XI not only to the rest of the Aeneid but also to relevant passages in the Iliad. Gransden shows how, despite his adoption of the epic form, Virgil's style is influenced by Alexandrian miniaturism, Callimachean theory, and the poetry of the neoteroi. In addition to questions of style and interpretation raised in the commentary, there are sections in the introduction covering the Virgilian hexameter and narrative technique.
- GenresPoetry
160 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 20
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Virgil
3,949 books1,992 followersborn 15 October 70 BC
died 21 September 19 BC
Roman poet Virgil, also Vergil, originally Publius Vergilius Maro, composed the Aeneid , an epic telling after the sack of Troy of the wanderings of Aeneas.
Work of Virgil greatly influenced on western literature; in most notably Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri.
died 21 September 19 BC
Roman poet Virgil, also Vergil, originally Publius Vergilius Maro, composed the Aeneid , an epic telling after the sack of Troy of the wanderings of Aeneas.
Work of Virgil greatly influenced on western literature; in most notably Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri.
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January 29, 2016
Notes:
Used Horsfall's exhaustive commentary -- a smattering of new textual depths & delights. Man is fond of the enlivening exclamation point, adding a punch of genuine enthusiasm to his commentary.
Re-reading the /Aeneid/ in concentric pairs (ie 1 & 12, 2 & 11, and-so-on), has revealed the strength & excellence of the poem's second half. This is not to diminish 1-6, mind you -- I bow before il miglior fabbro regardless of my current leanings.
Addendum: reading the poem in this particular way has offered me new evidence of Vergil's techniques & structures, the scaffolding. Beyond matters of composition, however, the narrative experience is at once progressive & retrograde: one watches the fitful though inevitable paths to Aeneas' destiny, to empire & alternately watches the finality of the war (with Turnus' death) grow distant, the tracks of empire sliding backward. As for the fruit of this tension, let us wait & watch!
Used Horsfall's exhaustive commentary -- a smattering of new textual depths & delights. Man is fond of the enlivening exclamation point, adding a punch of genuine enthusiasm to his commentary.
Re-reading the /Aeneid/ in concentric pairs (ie 1 & 12, 2 & 11, and-so-on), has revealed the strength & excellence of the poem's second half. This is not to diminish 1-6, mind you -- I bow before il miglior fabbro regardless of my current leanings.
Addendum: reading the poem in this particular way has offered me new evidence of Vergil's techniques & structures, the scaffolding. Beyond matters of composition, however, the narrative experience is at once progressive & retrograde: one watches the fitful though inevitable paths to Aeneas' destiny, to empire & alternately watches the finality of the war (with Turnus' death) grow distant, the tracks of empire sliding backward. As for the fruit of this tension, let us wait & watch!
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