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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"The Aeneid"”.
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Using Modern Portfolio Theory to Analyze Virgil's Aeneid (or Any Other Poem)
… paper demonstrates that it is possible to use mathematics to study literature as it has been used to study the social sciences. By focusing on mathematically defining economic and literary terms, it can be shown that the underlying mathematical structure behind key concepts in economics and …
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Battle narrative in Virgil and Ovid
The intent of this thesis is to examine the stylistics of Latin epic narrative as used to narrate and describe extended battle sequences, and to explore the way in which Latin authors working during the Augustan Era engaged with Homeric techniques of oral narrative while composing written epic. A …
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"Studies in Allusion in the ""Eclogues"" of Vergil"
"Vergil has ""analyzed"" the corpus of Theocritus by using only the bucolic Idylls and reworking them; there is not a one to one correspondence between individual Idylls and Eclogues. In the Aeneid, Vergil takes a single author as a primary model and analyzes his works, using them to create …
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Virgil's Aeneid, Book 8; An Experiment in Translation
… necessarily involve explanatory additions to the text. This is all the more true for Latin poetry, and above all for Virgil, who manages to create surprising and moving expressions line after line. Most modern translators have aimed for a literal version of the Aeneid, at the expense of …
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forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit
… This process repeats twice: with each iteration, the motif and counter-motif return in subtler, brighter forms as their texture and timbers evolve, as the quartet seems to recall the preceding material in decreasingly vivid manifestation. These motifs and the developmental climaxes invoke an …
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Women in Statius' Thebaid
The women in Statius' Thebaid are striking characters. Statius gives them real roles to play; they don't just sit in the background of the epic waiting for the men to decide all the issues. Instead, they take active roles in the action and succeed in affecting the world around them. It is …
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The Ideal of Lucretia in Augustan Latin Poetry
This study concerns the figure of Lucretia as she is presented by the Roman historian Livy in the first book of Ab Urbe Condita, where she is intended as an example of virtue, particularly in terms of her attention to woolworking. To find evidence for this ideal and how it was regarded at the time, …
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THE 'ENTENTE' OF THE NARRATOR: A POET SPEAKS TO HIS AUDIENCE IN CHAUCER'S VERSIONS OF THE DIDO AND AENEAS LEGEND
<p>In Book I of The House of Fame and in "The Legend of Dido" in The Legend of Good Women, Geoffrey Chaucer offers his versions of the classical love story of Dido and Aeneas. Each story is told through the voice of a well-developed narrator who regularly interrupts his narration to speak to an …
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An Epic of Tragic Proportions: [In]forming the Politics of Statius’ Thebaid through Greek Tragic Intertext
<p>Statius’ epic poem, the Thebaid, has often been compared to Virgil’s Aeneid and many studies rightfully devote their attention to this text. I argue, however, that Greek tragedy equally plays an integral role in our reading and understanding of the Thebaid. Statius’ relationship with Greek …
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Female characterisation in the epic poetry of P. Papinius Statius
"No serious Latinist will deny the probability that Statius will again emerge from the current scholarly re-evaluation of Silver Age Epic as the great poet he seemed to the finest spirits of High Middle Ages and Renaissance, rather than as the pale imitator of Virgil he appeared to the censorious …
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Burn: A Novel
<p>Burn is a retelling of Virgil's Aeneid set in the contemporary American South. The novel tells the story of Angie, a young woman who continually seeks the stability that her childhood lacked. Angie is an interpretation of Aeneas as a traumatic hero, and as such, she continually tries to revise …