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- catalog abstract "Annotation In this collection of twelve of his essays, distinguished Virgil scholar Michael Putnam examines the "Aeneid" from several different interpretive angles. He identifies the themes that permeate the epic, provides detailed interpretations of its individual books, and analyzes the poem's influence on later writers, including Ovid, Lucan, Seneca, and Dante. In addition, a major essay on wrathful Aeneas and the tactics of "Pietas" is published here for the first time. Putnam first surveys the intellectual development that shaped Virgil's poetry. He then examines several of the poem's recurrent dichotomies and metaphors, including idealism and realism, the line and the circle, and piety and fury. In succeeding chapters, he examines in detail the meaning of particular books of the "Aeneid" and argues that a close reading of the end of the epic is crucial for understanding the poem as a whole and Virgil's goals in composing it.".
- catalog contributor b7487703.
- catalog coverage "Rome In literature.".
- catalog created "c1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "c1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1995.".
- catalog description "Annotation In this collection of twelve of his essays, distinguished Virgil scholar Michael Putnam examines the "Aeneid" from several different interpretive angles. He identifies the themes that permeate the epic, provides detailed interpretations of its individual books, and analyzes the poem's influence on later writers, including Ovid, Lucan, Seneca, and Dante. In addition, a major essay on wrathful Aeneas and the tactics of "Pietas" is published here for the first time. Putnam first surveys the intellectual development that shaped Virgil's poetry. He then examines several of the poem's recurrent dichotomies and metaphors, including idealism and realism, the line and the circle, and piety and fury. In succeeding chapters, he examines in detail the meaning of particular books of the "Aeneid" and argues that a close reading of the end of the epic is crucial for understanding the poem as a whole and Virgil's goals in composing it.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-324) and indexes.".
- catalog description "The Virgilian achievement -- Possessiveness, sexuality, and heroism in the Aeneid -- The third book of the Aeneid: from Homer to Rome -- Daedalus, Virgil, and the end of art -- Aeneid 7 and the Aeneid -- Umbro, Nireus, and love's Threnody -- Pius Aeneas and the metamorphosis of Lausus -- The hesitation of Aeneas -- Anger, blindness, and insight in Virgil's Aeneid -- Wrathful Aeneas and the tactics of Pietas in Virgil, Ovid, and Lucan -- Virgil's tragic future: Senecan drama and the Aeneid -- Virgil's inferno.".
- catalog extent "332 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Virgil's Aeneid.".
- catalog identifier "0807821918".
- catalog identifier "0807844993 (pbk.)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Virgil's Aeneid.".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "c1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press,".
- catalog relation "Virgil's Aeneid.".
- catalog spatial "Rome In literature.".
- catalog subject "873/.01 20".
- catalog subject "Aeneas (Legendary character) In literature.".
- catalog subject "Aeneas (Legendary character) in literature.".
- catalog subject "Epic poetry, Latin History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Literature, Modern Roman influences.".
- catalog subject "PA6825 .P84 1995".
- catalog subject "Virgil Influence.".
- catalog subject "Virgil. Aeneis.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The Virgilian achievement -- Possessiveness, sexuality, and heroism in the Aeneid -- The third book of the Aeneid: from Homer to Rome -- Daedalus, Virgil, and the end of art -- Aeneid 7 and the Aeneid -- Umbro, Nireus, and love's Threnody -- Pius Aeneas and the metamorphosis of Lausus -- The hesitation of Aeneas -- Anger, blindness, and insight in Virgil's Aeneid -- Wrathful Aeneas and the tactics of Pietas in Virgil, Ovid, and Lucan -- Virgil's tragic future: Senecan drama and the Aeneid -- Virgil's inferno.".
- catalog title "Virgil's Aeneid : interpretation and influence / Michael C.J. Putnam.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".