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), Latin Language and Latin Culture from Ancient to Modern Times (2001), and the forthcoming Juno’s Aeneid: Narrative, Metapoetics, Dissent. 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)

• Illustrations viii Notes on Contributors xPreface xvAcknowledgments xviNote on References xviiIntroduction 1Joseph Farrell and Michael C.J. PutnamPART I The Aeneid in Antiquity 111 Vergil's Library 13Damien P. Nelis2 On First Looking into Vergil's Homer 26Ralph Hexter3 The Development of the Aeneas Legend 37Sergio Casali4 Aeneas' Sacral Authority 52Vassiliki Panoussi5 Vergil's Roman 66J.D. Reed6 Vergil, Ovid, and the Poetry of Exile 80Michael C.J. Putnam7 The Unfinished Aeneid? 96James J. O'Hara8 The Life of Vergil before Donatus 107Fabio StokPART II Medieval and Renaissance Receptions 1219 Vergil and St. Augustine 123Garry Wills10 Felix Casus: The Dares and Dictys Legends of Aeneas 133Sarah Spence11 Vergil in Dante 147Rachel Jacoff12 Marvelous Vergil in the Ferrarese Renaissance 158Dennis Looney13 Spenser's Vergil: The Faerie Queene and the Aeneid 173Philip Hardie14 The Aeneid in the Age of Milton 186Henry Power15 Practicing What They Preach? Vergil and the Jesuits 203Yasmin Haskell16 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) 217Andrew Laird17 Vergil and Printed Books, 1500–1800 234Craig KallendorfPART III The Aeneid in Music and the Visual Arts 25118 Vergil and the Pamphili Family in Piazza Navona, Rome 253Ingrid Rowland19 Visual and Verbal Translation of Myth: Neptune in Vergil, Rubens, and Dryden 270Reuben A. Brower20 The AEneas of Vergil: A Dramatic Performance Presented in the Original Latin by John Ogilby 290Kristi Eastin21 Empire and Exile: Vergil in Romantic Art 311David Blayney Brown22 Laocoons 325Glenn W. Most23 Vergil in Music 341William FitzgeraldPART IV The American Aeneid 35324 Vergil and the Early American Republic 355Carl J. Richard25 Why Did American Women Read the Aeneid? 366Caroline Winterer26 Vergil in the Black American Experience 376Michele Valerie Ronnick27 Vergil and Founding Violence 391Michèle Lowrie28 Figuring the Founder: Vergil and the Challenge of Autocracy 404Joy ConnollyPART V Modern Reactions to the Aeneid 41929 Classic Vergil 421Kenneth Haynes30 Vergil's Detractors 435Joseph Farrell31 Mind the Gap: On Foreignizing Translations of the Aeneid 449Susanna Morton Braund32 Vergil's Aeneid and Contemporary Poetry 465Karl KirchweyBibliography 482Index 531

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