A Companion to Vergil′s Aeneid and its Tradition

Joseph Farrell is Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of several books and papers on Latin literature, including Vergil's Georgics and the Traditions of Ancient Epic (1991), Latin Language and Latin Culture from Ancient to Modern Times (2001), and the forthcoming Juno's Aeneid: Narrative, Metapoetics, Dissent. Michael C. J. Putnam is MacMillan Professor of Classics and Professor of Comparative Literature, Emeritus, at Brown University. His works include Maffeo Vegio: Short Epics (2004), Poetic Interplay: Catullus and Horace (2006), and The Virgilian Tradition: The First Fifteen Hundred Years (with Jan Ziolkowski, 2008)

Illustrations. Notes on Contributors. Preface. Acknowledgments. Note on References. Introduction ( Joseph Farrell and Michael C.J. Putnam ). PART I The Aeneid in Antiquity. 1 Vergil's Library ( Damien P. Nelis ). 2 On First Looking into Vergil's Homer ( Ralph Hexter ). 3 The Development of the Aeneas Legend ( Sergio Casali ). 4 Aeneas' Sacral Authority ( Vassiliki Panoussi ) 5 Vergil's Roman ( J.D. Reed ). 6 Vergil, Ovid, and the Poetry of Exile ( Michael C.J. Putnam ). 7 The Unfinished Aeneid ? ( James J. O'Hara ). 8 The Life of Vergil before Donatus ( Fabio Stok ). PART II Medieval and Renaissance Receptions. 9 Vergil and St. Augustine ( Garry Wills ). 10 Felix Casus: The Dares and Dictys Legends of Aeneas ( Sarah Spence ). 11 Vergil in Dante ( Rachel Jacoff ). 12 Marvelous Vergil in the Ferrarese Renaissance ( Dennis Looney ). 13 Spenser's Vergil: The Faerie Queene and the Aeneid ( Philip Hardie ). 14 The Aeneid in the Age of Milton ( Henry Power ). 15 Practicing What They Preach? Vergil and the Jesuits ( Yasmin Haskell ). 16 The Aeneid from the Aztecs to the Dark Virgin: Vergil, Native Tradition, and Latin Poetry in Colonial Mexico from Sahagun's Memoriales (1563) to Villerias' Guadalupe (1724) ( Andrew Laird ). 17 Vergil and Printed Books, 1500-1800 ( Craig Kallendorf ). PART III The Aeneid in Music and the Visual Arts. 18 Vergil and the Pamphili Family in Piazza Navona, Rome ( Ingrid Rowland ). 19 Visual and Verbal Translation of Myth: Neptune in Vergil, Rubens, and Dryden ( Reuben A. Brower ). 20 The Aneas of Vergil: A Dramatic Performance Presented in the Original Latin by John Ogilby ( Kristi Eastin ). 21 Empire and Exile: Vergil in Romantic Art ( David Blayney Brown ). 22 Laocoons ( Glenn W. Most ). 23 Vergil in Music ( William Fitzgerald ). PART IV The American Aeneid . 24 Vergil and the Early American Republic ( Carl J. Richard ). 25 Why Did American Women Read the Aeneid ? ( Caroline Winterer ). 26 Vergil in the Black American Experience ( Michele Valerie Ronnick ). 27 Vergil and Founding Violence ( Michele Lowrie ). 28 Figuring the Founder: Vergil and the Challenge of Autocracy ( Joy Connolly ). PART V Modern Reactions to the Aeneid . 29 Classic Vergil ( Kenneth Haynes ). 30 Vergil's Detractors ( Joseph Farrell ). 31 Mind the Gap: On Foreignizing Translations of the Aeneid ( Susanna Morton Braund ). 32 Vergil's Aeneid and Contemporary Poetry ( Karl Kirchwey ). Bibliography. Index.