Companion to the Aeneid in Translation: Volume 1

Introduction and Indices

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

AvChristopher Tanfield,UK) Tanfield, Christopher (Classics Teacher, Independent Scholar

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With this three-volume companion, students can access the literary and historical significance of the Aeneid in English through an accessible yet authoritative introduction and line-by-line commentary. Written by a teacher who has taught the Aeneid in both English and Latin for more than twenty years, this guide unpicks Virgil's literary techniques, structures and historical resonances.Volume 1 gives you a broad introduction to the historical and philosophical background of the epic; to Virgil's life and works; to the central human and divine characters met in the poem; to how the epic reflects Roman society and its values; to Virgil's literary allusions and stylistic techniques; and to the reception and translation of the epic in later periods. This book also features maps and a family tree so you can trace the travels and lineage of the characters and grasp the geography of the Aeneid’s Italy. Plus, the general index to the companion is a valuable reference tool. It can be used with any edition of the Aeneid in Latin or English, as entries are pegged to line numbers. Volumes 2 and 3 present a line-by-line commentary on the poem, with tables and box features illustrating key narrative arcs and structural patterns.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-01-23
Mått168 x 242 x 18 mm
Vikt520 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor304
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350499492

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ForewordPreface1. Historical background1.1: Rome’s Origins – Rival Traditions1.2: Rome’s Origins – Archaeology1.3: From Aeneas to Romulus – the Alban Kings (to 753 BCE)1.4: The Roman Kings (to 509 BCE)1.5: The Early Republic (to 133 BCE)1.6: The Late Republic (from 133 BCE onwards)1.7: Augustus in the Aeneid1.8: Literary Sources for Roman History2. Virgil’s Life and Works2.1: Life2.2: Virgilian Appendix.2.3: Eclogues (or ‘Bucolics’)2.4: Georgics62.5: A Planned Career?3. Main characters3.1: Characterisation in the Aeneid3.2: Aeneas3.3: Turnus3.4: Dido3.5: Ascanius3.6: Anchises3.7: Latinus and Evander3.8: Amata3.9: Lavinia3.10: Camilla4. The Gods and Fate4.1: Greek Versus Roman Gods4.2: Olympian Gods in Homer4.3: Olympian Gods in the Aeneid4.4: Fate4.5: Gods in Particular4.6: Gigantomachy4.7: Orphism and Pythagoreanism5. Philosophical background5.1: Plato and the Academy (First Half of the Fourth Century BCE)5.2: Aristotle and the Peripatetics (from the Late Fourth Century BCE)5.3: Epicureanism - History5.4: Stoicism – History5.5: Stoicism, Epicureanism and the Aeneid5.6: Cicero’s Philosophical Writings6. Society6.1: Romanness6.2: Family6.3: Women - at Rome and in the Aeneid6.4: Religion6.5: Battles7. Literary aspects7.1: Structure7.2: The Hero7.3: Narratology7.4: Ekphrasis7.5: Similes7.6: Speeches7.7: Diction7.8: Metre8. Reading the Aeneid8.1: Intratextuality – Self-Allusion8.2: Intertextuality, Narrow Sense – External Allusion8.3: Allusion and Subjectivity8.4: Epic and other Literary Antecedents9. Reception9.1: The First 150 Years after Virgil9.2: The Second to Fifth Centuries – Servius and Macrobius9.3: The Middle Ages and Renaissance - Survival9.4: 16th to 19th Centuries – Resurgence and Eclipse9.5: 20th and 21st Centuries - Re-evaluation9.6: Literary Theory10. Translating the Aeneid (into English)11. Maps12. Family Tree of the Royal Houses of Greece and TroyNotesSelect BibliographyIndex to the IntroductionIndex to the Commentaries in Volumes 2 and 3