Virgil's Gaze: Nation and Poetry in the Aeneid

239 Pages·2007·0.92 MB·English

by  J. D. Reed

VIRGIL’S GAZE
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VIRGIL’S GAZE
NATION AND POETRY IN THE AENEID
J.D.Reed
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
PRINCETON AND OXFORD
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Reed,J.D.
Virgil’s gaze :nation and poetry in the Aeneid / J.D.Reed.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN-13:978-0-691-12740-8 (hardcover :alk.paper)
ISBN-10:0-691-12740-9 (hardcover :alk.paper)
1.Virgil.Aeneis. 2.National characteristics,Roman,in literature.
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CONTENTS
PREFACE vii
Introduction 1
ONE • Euryalus 16
TWO • Turnus 44
THREE • Dido 73
FOUR • Andromache 101
FIVE • Ancient Cities 129
SIX • Marcellus 148
SEVEN • Aeneas 173
BIBLIOGRAPHY 203
INDEXOFTEXTSCITED 211
GENERALINDEX 223
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PREFACE
This book studies the way Virgil’s Aeneid defines a nationality—one
that the poem invites us to understand as Roman—out of a play of con-
trasts between nationalities.It is intended for a broad literary audience:
not only specialists in Latin poetry,but anyone who has read the Aeneid
at least in translation. In the bibliography, names of journals in classi-
cal studies have the standard abbreviations found in the American
Journal ofArchaeology.In footnotes I abbreviate a few ancient titles that
I cite often: Ad(onis), Aen(eid), Georg(ics), Il(iad), Met(amorphoses),
Od(yssey). A.P. means the Anthologia Palatina (the Greek Anthology,
minus the Planudean Anthology).It is customary,when writing on the
Aeneid, to own one’s keen awareness of being unable to take into
account more than a part of the immense and ever-increasing critical
literature; I am no exception, and I can only hope that my references
make my debts plain and ultimately permit readers to make up my
inadvertent omissions.
I wrote and rewrote this book over many years, traditionally finish-
ing a new draft toward the end of the year. What will Christmastime
be without a turn through these gilt and empurpled halls? I am partic-
ularly grateful to audiences at Stanford in December 1992 and
February 2001, in Atlanta in December 1994, in Dallas in December
1999,and at more job talks than I care to remember.For enlightening
conversations and correspondance I owe a debt of gratitude to Fred
Ahl, Alessandro Barchiesi, Will Batstone, Pamela Bleisch, Ruth
Caston, Joy Connolly, Basil Dufallo, Mark Edwards, Denis Feeney,
Kris Fletcher,Marcus Folch,David Halperin,Brent Hannah,Albertus
Horsting, Richard Janko, Geoff Maturen, James O’Hara, Hayden
Pelliccia, Piero Pucci, Susan Stephens, Richard Thomas, Tobias
Torgerson,Michael Wigodsky;and to the students in my undergradu-
ate and graduate classes on the Aeneid.
Ann Arbor
December 2005
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ABBREVIATIONS
CIS Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum.Paris 1881–1951.
CLE F.Buecheler and E.Lommatzsch,Carmina Latina
Epigraphica.Leipzig 1895–1926.
EV Enciclopedia Virgiliana.Rome 1984–91.
FGrH F.Jacoby,Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker.
Berlin 1923–55.
KAI H.Donner and W.Röllig,Kanaanäische und aramäische
Inschriften.4th ed.Wiesbaden,1979.
PMG D.L.Page,Poetae Melici Graeci.Oxford 1962.
SH H.Lloyd-Jones and P.Parsons,Supplementum Hellenisticum.
Berlin 1983.
RE Real-Encyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft.
Stuttgart 1893–.
TLL Thesaurus Linguae Latinae.Leipzig 1900–.