Description
Book SynopsisA fresh look at one of the masterpieces of Latin literature and how it contributes to a new visual culture and a new mythology of imperial Rome.
Trade ReviewIn sum, this book makes an important contribution to the analysis of the Aeneid.... It deserves the close attention and lively interest of all scholars of the Aeneid. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *
Table of Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Text and Art Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1. Prophaenomena ad Vergilium
- Theory
- Theoria
- Ante ora patrum
- The Scope of the Argument
- Chapter 2. Ruse and Revelation: Visions of the Divine and the Telos of Narrative
- Seen/Unseen
- Gods Revealed
- A God in the Midst
- Chapter 3. Vision Past and Future
- Hector and the Penates
- Hindsight to Foresight: Andromache and Aeneas
- Imago Creusae
- Vision and Temporal Modality in Aeneas' Katabasis
- Site/Sight of Rome
- Conclusion
- Chapter 4. Hic amor: Love, Vision, and Destiny
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Aliud genus officii: Vision and the Second Favor
- Viewpoints of Departure: Deception, Vision, and the Separation of Dido and Aeneas
- Fixos Oculos
- Lauiniaque uenit
- Conclusion
- Chapter 5. Vision's Victory and the Telos of Narrative
- Failure of Rhetoric (Part 1): Effete oratores
- Drances and Turnus: Opposing Visions
- Hercules and Cacus: Light, Darkness, and Diction
- Failure of Rhetoric (Part 2): The Futility of Battlefield Entreaty in Books 10-12
- Failure of Rhetoric (Part 3): Sight Makes Right and the Aeneid's Finale
- Chapter 6. Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
