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Virgil's cinematic art : vision as narrative in the Aeneid
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ISBN: 9780197643242 9780197643266 0197643272 0197643256 0197643264 Year: 2023 Publisher: New York, New York : Oxford University Press

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Virgil's Cinematic Art concerns the rhetoric of visual manipulation that provokes us to envision what is written on the page, treating visual details in ancient epic not as mere scene-setting information or enhancements to any given story, but as cues for performing specific imaginative processes. Through a series of close readings centered primarily on Virgil's Aeneid, Kirk Freudenburg shows that the experiential effects that Virgil puts into play do serious narrative work of their own by structuring lines of sight, both visual and emotive, and shifting them about in ways that move readers (interpellated as viewers) into and out of the visual and emotional worlds of the story's characters. Studies of visualization in Latin poetry have tended to treat what is seen in epic as a matter of what is there to be seen, rather than an expression of how someone sees, treating images as mostly static. This study, by contrast, concerns the cinematics of ancient narrative: how words provoke an active, forward-moving process of experiential participation; poets not as verbal painters, but as projectors, purveyors of imagined happenings. Informed by cognitivist and constructivist studies of how audiences watch narrative films and make sense of what they are being given to see, Freudenburg locates new narrative content lurking in old places, brought to life within the imaginations of readers. The end result is a new approach to the question of how ancient epic tales convey narrative content through visual means.


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Vergil : The Poet's Life.
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ISBN: 0300274823 9780300274820 9780300256611 Year: 2023 Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press

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A biography of Vergil, Rome's greatest poet, by the acclaimed translator of the Aeneid The Aeneid stands as a towering work of Classical Roman literature and a gripping dramatization of the best and worst of human nature. In the process of creating this epic poem, Vergil (70-19 BCE) became the world's first media celebrity, a living legend. But the real Vergil is a shadowy figure; we know that he was born into a modest rural family, that he led a private and solitary life, and that, in spite of poor health and unusual emotional vulnerabilities, he worked tirelessly to achieve exquisite new effects in verse. Vergil's most famous work, the Aeneid, was commissioned by the emperor Augustus, who published the epic despite Vergil's dying wish that it be destroyed. Sarah Ruden, widely praised for her translation of the Aeneid, uses evidence from Roman life and history alongside Vergil's own writings to make careful deductions to reconstruct his life. Through her intimate knowledge of Vergil's work, she brings to life a poet who was committed to creating something astonishingly new and memorable, even at great personal cost.


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Virgilio : guida all'Eneide
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ISBN: 9788829020676 8829020672 Year: 2023 Publisher: Roma : Carocci,

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L'Eneide è il più grande poema della latinità. Nata con l'audace ambizione di superare l'insuperabile Omero, ha esercitato un'influenza incalcolabile sulla letteratura occidentale; senza di essa, per esempio, non esisterebbe la Commedia di Dante quale noi la conosciamo. Nell'Eneide si sono viste la glorificazione dell'imperialismo romano e la sua critica; la lode di Augusto e la sottile contestazione del suo potere; la celebrazione dei trionfi di Roma e la meditazione malinconica sulla sconfitta e la perdita. In realtà, l'Eneide è tutte queste cose insieme, una "formazione di compromesso" tra poli opposti e inconciliabili, un'opera autoriflessiva che denuncia i meccanismi della deformazione ideologica nel momento stesso in cui li sfrutta e li mette in azione. Questa guida introduce il lettore alla grandiosa complessità del poema virgiliano alla luce dell'esegesi secolare e delle interpretazioni più re$c enti.


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Zeitmontagen in Vergils Aeneis : Anachronismen als literarische Technik.
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ISBN: 9783525311523 3525311524 9783647311524 3666311520 3647311529 Year: 2023 Publisher: Göttingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht

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Wenn Vergil in seiner Aeneis von der Flucht der Trojaner und ihrer konfliktreichen Ankunft in Italien erzählt, spiegelt sich in den Leiden und Kämpfen der mythologischen Helden zugleich seine eigene Gegenwart und die seiner zeitgenössischen Leser. Der Bezug zwischen diesen beiden Zeitebenen wird aber nicht nur an prominenten Stellen wie etwa in der sogenannten Heldenschau oder der Schildbeschreibung explizit hergestellt, sondern auch durch die vor modernen Hintergründen spielende Handlung immer wieder in Erinnerung gerufen. Während solche Verstöße gegen die Chronologie seit der Antike vorwiegend als Fehler wahrgenommen wurden, versteht sie Dennis Pausch in seinem Buch als Zeitmontagen und als literarische Technik, die nicht nur einen wichtigen Beitrag zur politischen Botschaft, sondern vor allem zur ästhetischen Wirkung des Werkes leisten. Biographische Informationen Dr. Dennis Pausch ist Professor für Klassische Philologie an der TU Dresden.


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Ronald Knox's lectures on Virgil's Aeneid : with introduction and critical essays
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ISBN: 9781350118294 9781350118287 1350118311 135011829X Year: 2023 Publisher: London: Bloomsbury Academic,

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This book makes available Ronald Knox's hitherto unpublished lectures on Virgil's Aeneid delivered at Trinity College, Oxford, as part of a lecture course on Virgil in 1912. Written with Knox's customary incisiveness and with frequent allusions to contemporary life, the lectures are devoted to the appreciation of the Aeneid and focus on what he called the 'essential and dominant characteristics' that make up its greatness. They deal with Virgil's political and religious outlook, ideas of the afterlife, sense of romance and pathos, narrative style, sources, versification and appreciation of scenery. His interpretation of the relationship between Dido and Aeneas renders redundant the question, much debated to this day, of whether Aeneas loved Dido, and also portrays Aeneas more sympathetically than is currently fashionable.The additional introductory and critical essays by the contributors place the lectures in their historical and scholarly context, bring out their enduring relevance and illustrate how Ronald Knox's distinctive approach might be still developed to advantage. As Robert Speaight noted in his presidential address to the Virgil Society in 1958, 'many of us who love our Virgil will now understand him better because Ronald Knox loved and understood him so well'.


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Aeneas als Held und Erzähler : zur narratieven Gestaltung van Vergils Aeneis
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ISBN: 9783525311479 3525311478 Year: 2023 Publisher: Göttingen Vancenhoeck & Ruprecht

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Dem Troianer Aeneas ist es vom Schicksal bestimmt, nach Italien zu ziehen und ein Urahn der Römer zu werden. In Vergils Aeneis trifft er die Entscheidung, Troia zu verlassen, erst spät - zu spät, wie manche kritisieren. Aber solche Kritik übergeht die Figurenperspektive: Anders als das Lesepublikum des Epos und anders als der für Dido vom Untergang Troias erzählende Aeneas kennt der in Troia kämpfende Aeneas die eigene Bestimmung noch nicht. Dieses Buch ist eine Annäherung an die Aeneis als Erzähltext. Es stellt - unter steter Berücksichtigung der unterschiedlichen epistemischen Perspektiven - die narrative Kohärenz des Epos heraus. Im Mittelpunkt der Untersuchung steht die Erzählung der Hauptfigur in den Büchern 2-3, und hier insbesondere die Schilderung der letzten Stunden von Troia in Buch 2. Neu diskutiert werden dabei unter anderem Figurenrede und Gleichnisse als markante Formen epischer Textgestaltung, pietas, die fata, die Funktion der Venus sowie die umstrittene Helena-Szene.


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Fate and the hero in Virgil's Aeneid : Stoic world fate and human responsibility
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ISBN: 1009319825 100931985X 1009319876 Year: 2023 Publisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press,

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This book explores how Virgil in his Aeneid incorporates the ancient Stoics' thinking about how humans can exercise moral responsibility and how this can affect providential world fate. The third-century BC philosopher Chrysippus of Soli located this freedom in the way we can assent to courses of action, and Graham Zanker innovatively demonstrates how Virgil appropriates this concept in the way that Jupiter and Aeneas can assent to the world fate in which they have discovered they must play a part, or Juno and Dido can withhold their assent to it. Indeed, Virgil even offers the model to no-one less than Augustus: the emperor is invited to give his assent to ruling what was believed to be his 'world-wide' empire justly. The book is accessible to both students and professional scholars of the Aeneid, with all Greek and Latin translated into idiomatic English.


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The reception of Vergil in Renaissance Rome
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ISBN: 9789004528420 9789004519756 Year: 2023 Publisher: Leiden : Brill,

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"In this work Jeffrey Glodzik argues that Vergil played a central role in the prevailing discourse of Renaissance Rome. Roman humanists associated with the papacy employed the language of Vergil to express a vision for Rome and its divinely-ordained destiny. Using the transformation methodology allelopoiesis, he shows that in their neo-Latin works Roman humanists focused on a Christian interpretation of the fourth eclogue to highlight an incipient Golden Age, ignored pessimistic readings of the Aeneid to emphasize the glories of a renewed imperium, and encapsulated Vergil's words to celebrate papal Rome's unquestionable destiny. Ultimately, Glodzik demonstrates that the interpretation and application of Vergil were not uniform throughout Europe; Vergil was instead shaped to fit the concerns of papal Rome"--

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