The Cambridge Companion to Virgil (Cambridge Companions to Literature) PDF
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Virgil, 'the classic of all Europe' in T. S. Eliot's words, became a school author in his own lifetime and was the centre of the Western canon for the next i,800 years, exerting a major influence on European literature, art, and politics. This Companion is designed as an indispensable guide for anyone, whether a classicist or not, who is seeking a fuller understanding of an author critical to so many disciplines. It consists of specially commissioned essays by seventeen scholars from Britain, the USA, Ireland and Italy which offer a range of different perspectives both traditional and innovative on Virgil's works, and a renewed sense of why Virgil matters today. The Companion is divided into four main sections, focusing on reception, genre, context, and form. This ground-breaking book not only provides a wealth of material for an informed reading but also offers fresh and sophisticated insights which point to the shape of Virgilian scholarship and criticism to come. CCaammbbrriiddggee CCoommppaanniioonnss OOnnlliinnee ©© CCaammbbrriiddggee UUnniivveerrssiittyy PPrreessss,, 22000066 CAMBRIDGE COMPANIONS TO LITERATURE The Cambridge Companion to Old English The Cambridge Companion to Beckett Literature edited by John Pilling edited by Malcolm Godden and The Cambridge Companion to T. S. Eliot Michael Lapidge edited by A. David Moody The Cambridge Companion to Dante The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance edited by Rachel Jacoff Humanism The Cambridge Chaucer Companion edited by Jill Kraye edited by Piero Boitani and Jill Mann The Cambridge Companion to Conrad The Cambridge Companion to Medieval edited by J. H. Stape English Theatre The Cambridge Companion to the edited by Richard Beadle Eighteenth-Century Novel The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare edited by John Richetti Studies The Cambridge Companion to Faulkner edited by Stanley Wells edited by Philip M. 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Easterling The Cambridge Companion to Brecht edited by Peter Thomson and The Cambridge Companion to Virgil Glendyr Sacks edited by Charles Martindale CCaammbbrriiddggee CCoommppaanniioonnss OOnnlliinnee ©© CCaammbbrriiddggee UUnniivveerrssiittyy PPrreessss,, 22000066 THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO VIRGIL CCaammbbrriiddggee CCoommppaanniioonnss OOnnlliinnee ©© CCaammbbrriiddggee UUnniivveerrssiittyy PPrreessss,, 22000066 Simone Martini: frontispiece to Petrarch's Virgil manuscript, 1340. (Biblioteca Ambrosiana (Codex A.49«inf), Milan.) (A description of this picture can be found on p. x.) CCaammbbrriiddggee CCoommppaanniioonnss OOnnlliinnee ©© CCaammbbrriiddggee UUnniivveerrssiittyy PPrreessss,, 22000066 THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO VIRGIL EDITED BY CHARLES MARTINDALE Professor of Latin, University of Bristol CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS CCaammbbrriiddggee CCoommppaanniioonnss OOnnlliinnee ©© CCaammbbrriiddggee UUnniivveerrssiittyy PPrreessss,, 22000066 PUBLISHED BY THE PRESS SYNDICATE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 IRP, United Kingdom CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 2RU, United Kingdom 40 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011-4211, USA 10 Stamford Road, Oakleigh, Melbourne 3166, Australia © Cambridge University Press 1997 This book is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published 1997 Typeset in Sabon io/i3pt A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress cataloguing in publication data applied for ISBN o 521 49539 3 hardback ISBN o 521 49885 6 paperback Transferred to digital printing 2003 CCaammbbrriiddggee CCoommppaanniioonnss OOnnlliinnee ©© CCaammbbrriiddggee UUnniivveerrssiittyy PPrreessss,, 22000066 CONTENTS List of illustrations page x List of contributors xiii Preface xvii 1 Introduction: 'The classic of all Europe' i CHARLES MARTINDALE Part i: Translation and reception 19 2 Virgil in English translation 21 COLIN BURROW 3 Modern receptions and their interpretative implications 38 DUNCAN F. KENNEDY 4 Aspects of Virgil's reception in antiquity 56 R. J. TARRANT 5 The Virgil commentary of Servius 73 DON FOWLER 6 Virgils, from Dante to Milton 79 COLIN BURROW 7 Virgil in art 91 M. J. H. LIVERSIDGE Part 2: Genre and poetic career 105 8 Green politics: the Eclogues 107 CHARLES MARTINDALE CCaammbbrriiddggee CCoommppaanniioonnss OOnnlliinnee ©© CCaammbbrriiddggee UUnniivveerrssiittyy PPrreessss,, 22000066 CONTENTS 9 Virgilian didaxis: value and meaning in the Georgics 125 WILLIAM BATSTONE 10 Virgilian epic 145 DUNCAN F. KENNEDY 11 Closure: the Book of Virgil 155 ELENA THEODORAKOPOULOS Part 3: Contexts of production 167 12 Poetry and power: Virgil's poetry in contemporary context 169 R. J. TARRANT 13 Rome and its traditions 188 JAMES E. G. ZETZEL 14 Virgil and the cosmos: religious and philosophical ideas 204 SUSANNA MORTON BRAUND 15 The Virgilian intertext 222 JOSEPH FARRELL Part 4: Contents and forms 239 16 Virgil's style 241 JAMES J. O'HARA 17 Virgilian narrative (a) Story-telling 259 DON FOWLER (b) Ecphrasis 271 ALESSANDRO BARCHIESI 18 Approaching characterisation in Virgil 282 ANDREW LAIRD 19 Sons and lovers: sexuality and gender in Virgil's poetry 294 ELLEN OLIENSIS Vlll CCaammbbrriiddggee CCoommppaanniioonnss OOnnlliinnee ©© CCaammbbrriiddggee UUnniivveerrssiittyy PPrreessss,, 22000066 CONTENTS 20 Virgil and tragedy 312 PHILIP HARDIE 21 Envoi: the death of Virgil 327 FIONA COX Dateline compiled by Genevieve Liveley 337 List of works cited 340 Index 359 IX CCaammbbrriiddggee CCoommppaanniioonnss OOnnlliinnee ©© CCaammbbrriiddggee UUnniivveerrssiittyy PPrreessss,, 22000066
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