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Book SynopsisThe fourth book of Virgil’s Aeneid is the shortest of his epic, and yet it has had an inestimable influence. The tragedy of Dido is replete with allusions to the Medeas of Euripides, Apollonius, and Ennius, as well as to Catullus’ Ariadne and the historical Cleopatra of Virgil’s Augustan Age. The book has intratextual connections to the poet’s own fourth Georgic (as he revisits the topic of apian regeneration and the loss of Eurydice), even as it confronts the reality of Rome’s bloody history with Carthage. The present volume offers the first full-scale commentary on the book in over eighty years, together with a new critical text that reflects recent scholarship on significant difficulties.

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Book SynopsisThis volume provides the first full-scale commentary on the eighth book of Virgil’s Aeneid, the book in which the poet presents the unforgettable tour of the site of the future Rome that the Arcadian Evander provides for his Trojan guest Aeneas, as well as the glorious apparition and bestowal of the mystical, magical shield of Vulcan on which the great events of the future Roman history are presented – culminating in the Battle of Actium and the victory of Octavian over the forces of Antony and Cleopatra. A critical text based on a fresh examination of the manuscript tradition is accompanied by a prose translation.Trade Review'(...) a work that is monumental not only for its size (801 pages) but also as a multifaceted contribution to the study of "Virgil's most Augustan book" (vii) (...)The commentary is also impressive in its stylistic analysis, which is subtly integrated into the comprehensive interpretation of Book 8. Moreover, Fratantuono and Smith have cleverly interwoven the allusive system into their stylistic insights. (...) They have succeeded in the challenge of offering a new commentary on perhaps the most canonical ancient poet in the Western tradition, and fitting it into the stimulating discussion with predecessors and contemporary scholars. Fratantuono and Smith's monumentum will certainly become a necessary reference not only for Virgilian scholarship, but also for those interested in other ancient poets or, more broadly, in their literary reception.' - Eleonora Tola, in: The Classical Journal Online "Este comentário é o resultado de mais uma publicação dos Mnemosyne Supplements da editora Brill, que, sistematicamente desde 1999, tem vindo a dar à estampa comentários de referência a muitos dos cantos da Eneida. (...) Numa obra tão rica de referências como é a Eneida, e particularmente o livro oitavo, os AA. guiam o leitor não apenas no âmbito das fontes vergilianas, mas também no imenso mundo de bibliografia secundária que se foi produzindo ao longo, sobretudo, dos séculos XX e XXI, fornecendo os principais títulos para episódios-chave, como o da batalha entre Hércules e Caco, ou a écfrase do escudo de Eneias. (...) Por último, resta-nos esperar que, numa altura em que há cada vez mais meios que ajudam a desenvolver este tipo de trabalho, tanto os AA. quanto a editora Brill continuem a tarefa hercúlea de produzir e editar comentários para os restantes livros da Eneida. - Gabriel A. F. Silva, University of Lisbon, in: EVPHROSYNE, Revista de Filologia Clássica 48 (2020).Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Introduction Text and Translation Commentary Bibliography Index Nominum Index Rerum Index Verborum

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Book SynopsisScholarship has tended to assume that Luther was uninterested in the Greek and Latin classics, given his promotion of the German vernacular and his polemic against the reliance upon Aristotle in theology. But as Athens and Wittenberg demonstrates, Luther was shaped by the classical education he had received and integrated it into his writings. He could quote Epicurean poetry to non-Epicurean ends; he could employ Aristotelian logic to prove the limits of philosophy’s role in theology. This volume explores how Luther and early Protestantism, especially Lutheranism, continued to draw from the classics in their quest to reform the church. In particular, it examines how early Protestantism made use of the philosophy and poetry from classical antiquity. Contributors to this volume: Joseph Herl, Jane Schatkin Hettrick, E.J. Hutchinson, Jack D. Kilcrease, E. Christian Kopf, John G. Nordling, Piergiacomo Petrioli, Eric G. Phillips, Richard J. Serina, Jr, R. Alden Smith, Carl P.E. Springer, Manfred Svensson, William P. Weaver, and Daniel Zager.Table of ContentsPreface List of Illustrations Abbreviations Classical Authors and Works Notes on Contributors Introduction: Martin Luther: From Classical Formation to Reformation  James Kellerman, R. Alden Smith and Carl P.E. Springer Part 1: Luther and Classical Poets and Philosophers 1 Naso erat magister? Virgil and Other Classical Poets in Luther’s Tischreden  R. Alden Smith 2 Nugatory Nonsense: Why Luther Rarely Cites Catullus  John G. Nordling 3 “Pious Mirth”: Listening to Martin Luther’s Latin Poetry  Carl P.E. Springer 4 Luther between Stoics and Epicureans  Carl P.E. Springer 5 Philtered Philosophy: Aristotle and Cicero in Luther’s Tischreden  R. Alden Smith 6 A Debatable Theology: Medieval Disputation, the Wittenberg Reformation, and Luther’s Heidelberg Theses  Richard J. Serina, Jr. 7 A Painted Record of Martin Luther in Renaissance Bologna  Piergiacomo Petrioli Part 2: The Reformation of Hymnody and Liturgy 8 What Virgil Taught Martin Luther About Poetry and Music  E. Christian Kopff 9 Collaboration over Time: Luther’s Adaptation of Ambrose’s Veni Redemptor Gentium  Eric Phillips 10 The Latin Liturgy and Juvenile Lutheran Instruction in Sixteenth-Century Germany  Joseph Herl 11 “Exulting and Adorning in Exuberant Strains”: Luther and Latin Polyphonic Music  Daniel Zager 12 Tradition and the Individual Talent: Some Verse-Paraphrases of Psalm 1  E.J. Hutchinson 13 Imitate the Lutherans: Catholic Solutions to Liturgical Problems in Late Eighteenth-Century Vienna  Jane Schatkin Hettrick Part 3: Lutheran Readings of Philosophy and Poetry 14 Melanchthon, Luther, and Indexing the Classics  William P. Weaver 15 An Intended Reformulation: Of Brad Gregory, Duns Scotus, and Early Modern Metaphysics  Jack D. Kilcrease 16 Ad normam veritatis christianae: Correcting Aristotle in Protestant Commentaries on the Nicomachean Ethics  Manfred Svensson 17 Influence and Inspiration: Archias and Staupitz as Didactic Models for Cicero and Luther  John G. Nordling Bibliography Index

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