Contributor
Farrell, Joseph, 1955-
Imprint:Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom ; Malden, Mass. : Wiley-Blackwell, c2010.
Descriptionxiv, 559 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.
Note:PART I. THE AENEID IN ANTIQUITY. 1. Vergil's library ; 2. On first looking into Vergil's Homer ; 3. The development of the Aeneas legend ; 4. Aeneas' sacral authority ; 5. Vergil's Roman ; 6. Vergil, Ovid, and the poetry of exile ; 7. The unfinished Aeneid? ; 8. The life of Vergil before Donatus -- PART II. MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE RECEPTIONS. 9. Vergil and St. Augustine ; 10. Felix Casus: the Dares and Dictys legends of Aenias ; 11. Vergil in Dante ; 12. Spenser's Vergil: The Faerie Queene and the Aeneid Philip Hardie ; 14. The Aeneid in the age of Milton ; 15. Practicing what they preach? Vergil and the Jesuits ; 16. The Aeneid from the Aztecs to the Dark Virgin: Vergil, native tradition, and Latin poetry in colonial Mexico from Sahagun's Memoriales (1563) to Villerias' Guadalupe (1724) ; 17. Vergil and printed books, 1500-1800 -- PART III. THE AENEID IN MUSIC AND THE VISUAL ARTS. 18. Vergil and the Pamphili family in Piazza Navona, Rome ; 19. Visual and verbal translation of myth: Neptune in Vergil, Rubens, and Dryden ; 20. The Aeneas of Vergil: a dramatic peformance presented in the original Latin by John Ogilby ; 21. Empire and exile: Vergil in romantic art ; 22. Laocoons ; 23. Vergil in music -- PART IV. THE AMERICAN AENEID. 24. Vergil and the early American republic ; 25. Why did American women read the Aeneid" ; 26. Vergil in the black American experience ; 27. Vergil and founding violence ; 28. Figuring the founder: Vergil and the challenge of autocracy -- PART V. MODERN REACTIONS TO THE AENEID. 29. Classic Vergil ; 30. Vergil's detractors ; 31. Mind the gap: on foreignizing translations of the Aeneid ; 32. Vergil's Aeneid and contemporary poetry.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [482]-530) and index.
