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Fate and the Hero in Virgil's Aeneid
, 2023This 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.
G. Zanker
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All the World's a Page: Imitation of Metatheater in Theocritus 15, Herodas 1 and Virgil Eclogues 3
The Classical journal, 2021:Theoc. 15.87-8 and Herod. 1.71 have been considered problematic, in that both poets expose the artifice of their creations to the apparent detriment of mimesis.
D. Kutzko
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VIRGIL'S SALIAN HYMN TO HERCULES
The Classical journal, 2021:The lengthy ceremonies in Hercules' honor that Evander and his Arcadians perform at the prehistoric Ara Maxima in Pallanteum reach a climax with the hymn that the Salian priests sing at Aeneid 8.285–305.
John F. Miller
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Virgil and the Conquest of Chaos
Antichthon, 2020The hunt for Virgil’s sources has been, by unspoken agreement among Latinists, largely abandoned. This regrettable development may in part have been a by-product of the justifiable revulsion against the excesses of Quellenforschung as practised c. 1880-c.
Nicholas Horsfall
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, 2020
This paper examines the question of Virgil’s Jewish sources, whether present or absent. It does not pretend to offer a new or decisive answer, whether for Buc. 4 or for Aen. 6, but is hoped to have made some progress in understanding the cultural context
N. Horsfall
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This paper examines the question of Virgil’s Jewish sources, whether present or absent. It does not pretend to offer a new or decisive answer, whether for Buc. 4 or for Aen. 6, but is hoped to have made some progress in understanding the cultural context
N. Horsfall
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Virgil, history, and the Roman tradition
, 2020Augustus’ typological recapitulation of the past lends weight to the impact of Virgil’s teleology: he is not merely the telos of Roman history, but embodies its greatest heroes and virtues. At the same time typology modifies the stark outline of a purely
N. Horsfall
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Come tradurre? Pier Paolo Pasolini and the Tradition of Italian Translations of Virgil's Aeneid
Oxford Scholarship Online, 2018This is the only volume of its kind that addresses the long and complicated history of translations of Virgil, whose poems were at the centre of the educational curriculum and the wider culture of Europe until the nineteenth century.
Ulrich Eigler, S. Braund, Z. Torlone
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LOOKING EDGEWAYS. PURSUING ACROSTICS IN OVID AND VIRGIL
Classical Quarterly, 2019What follows is an experiment in reading practice. I propose that we read some key passages of the Aeneid and the Metamorphoses in the active pursuit of acrostics and telestics, just as we have been accustomed to read them in the active pursuit of ...
M. Robinson
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Poets and poetry in Virgil’s Underworld
, 2020From a discussion of the singular concentration in Aeneid 6 of material pointing towards archaic Latin poetry and present in the text leading up to and including the famous verses excudent alii…(6.847–53), we pass to Virgil’s view of poets and poetry at ...
N. Horsfall
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