A Companion to Vergil's Aeneid and its Tradition

Illustrations viii
 
Notes on Contributors x
 
Preface xv
 
Acknowledgments xvi
 
Note on References xvii
 
Introduction 1
Joseph Farrell and Michael C.J. Putnam
 
PART I The Aeneid in Antiquity 11
 
1 Vergil's Library 13
Damien P. Nelis
 
2 On First Looking into Vergil's Homer 26
Ralph Hexter
 
3 The Development of the Aeneas Legend 37
Sergio Casali
 
4 Aeneas' Sacral Authority 52
Vassiliki Panoussi
 
5 Vergil's Roman 66
J.D. Reed
 
6 Vergil, Ovid, and the Poetry of Exile 80
Michael C.J. Putnam
 
7 The Unfinished Aeneid? 96
James J. O'Hara
 
8 The Life of Vergil before Donatus 107
Fabio Stok
 
PART II Medieval and Renaissance Receptions 121
 
9 Vergil and St. Augustine 123
Garry Wills
 
10 Felix Casus: The Dares and Dictys Legends of Aeneas 133
Sarah Spence
 
11 Vergil in Dante 147
Rachel Jacoff
 
12 Marvelous Vergil in the Ferrarese Renaissance 158
Dennis Looney
 
13 Spenser's Vergil: The Faerie Queene and the Aeneid 173
Philip Hardie
 
14 The Aeneid in the Age of Milton 186
Henry Power
 
15 Practicing What They Preach? Vergil and the Jesuits 203
Yasmin Haskell
 
16 The Aeneid from the Aztecs to the Dark Virgin: Vergil, Native Tradition, and Latin Poetry in Colonial Mexico from Sahagún's Memoriales (1563) to Villerías' Guadalupe (1724) 217
Andrew Laird
 
17 Vergil and Printed Books, 1500-1800 234
Craig Kallendorf
 
PART III The Aeneid in Music and the Visual Arts 251
 
18 Vergil and the Pamphili Family in Piazza Navona, Rome 253
Ingrid Rowland
 
19 Visual and Verbal Translation of Myth: Neptune in Vergil, Rubens, and Dryden 270
Reuben A. Brower
 
20 The AEneas of Vergil: A Dramatic Performance Presented in the Original Latin by John Ogilby 290
Kristi Eastin
 
21 Empire and Exile: Vergil in Romantic Art 311
David Blayney Brown
 
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Joseph Farrell is Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of several books and papers on Latin literature, including Vergil's Georgics and the Traditions of Ancient Epic (1991), and Latin Language and Latin Culture from Ancient to Modern Times (2001).
 
Michael C. J. Putnam is MacMillan Professor of Classics and Professor of Comparative Literature, Emeritus, at Brown University. His works include Maffeo Vegio: Short Epics (2004), Poetic Interplay: Catullus and Horace (2006), and The Virgilian Tradition: The First Fifteen Hundred Years (with Jan Ziolkowski, 2008)

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