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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"aeneid"”.
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The Neo-Latin Supplements to Virgil’s Aeneid, 1400–1700
… the Neo-Latin supplements to Virgil’s <em>Aeneid </em>(1400–1700), in particular, Pier Candido Decembrio’s <em>Liber Decimus-Tertius Eneidos </em>(1419), Maffeo Vegio’s <em>Supplementum </em>(1428), Jan van Foreest’s <em>Exequiae Turni </em>(1651), and the <em>Supplementum ad Aeneida …
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Using Modern Portfolio Theory to Analyze Virgil's Aeneid (or Any Other Poem)
… long standing questions around the Roman epic Aeneid by Virgil. The poet died before completing his poem. The relative completeness of the books of the Aeneid are quantitatively determined by applying Markowitz's modern portfolio theory. Modern portfolio theory optimizes the weights of the …
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The Practice and Benefit of Applying Digital Markup in Preserving Texts and Creating Digital Editions: A Poetical Analysis of a Blank-Verse Translation of Virgil's Aeneid
… digitized a 1794 English translation of Virgil's Aeneid and used a customized digital markup schema based on the guidelines set forth by the Text Encoding Initiative to indicate a set of poetic figures—such as simile and alliteration—within that text for analysis. While neither a translation …
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Battle narrative in Virgil and Ovid
… total of six extended battle sequences from the Aeneid of Virgil and the Metamorphoses of Ovid are examined and analysed with regard to their use of word order, simile, catalogue, and other such stylistic features. The overall aim is to consider Ovid’s literary debt to his immediate epic …
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"Studies in Allusion in the ""Eclogues"" of Vergil"
… 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 something greater than the model. In the Eclogues as well he has taken the work of a single author, found the elements which tie his view of these …
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The Ideal of Lucretia in Augustan Latin Poetry
… A return to the ideal is seen in Vergil’s Aeneid. Here, after civil upheaval, Dido with her gold weaving is presented as the opposite of the desired Roman matrona who, like Lucretia, is associated with plain wool. Such wool by its nature is in keeping with the surroundings found by Aeneas …
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Echoes of Laocoön's Warning in Letters from an American Farmer
… with a Western myth of origin such as Virgil's Aeneid, it becomes clear that Crèvecoeur is forcing his narrating persona to repeat a pattern of civilization – destruction, renewal – on which all of Western civilization is based. The sudden pessimism that erupts in the penultimate "Distresses of …
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An Epic of Tragic Proportions: [In]forming the Politics of Statius’ Thebaid through Greek Tragic Intertext
… 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 tragedy in his epic is …
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Weeping and <i>Virtus</i> in Early Imperial Roman Epic
… across three core texts: Vergil’s <em>Aeneid</em>, Lucan’s <em>Bellum Civile</em>, and Statius’ <em>Thebaid</em>. I seek to understand judgments of and explanations for men’s tears within my sources, using philological analysis in a roughly dramaturgical framework. By comparing scenes …
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Experiencing Color in the Indo-European World: A Literary and Linguistic Approach
… Iliad and Odyssey (Greek) and Vergil’s Aeneid (Latin). Investigation of the former includes discussion of ancient aesthetics, perception, and cognition, and argues for a multisensory, emotional, and kinetic reading of Homer’s color terms. The latter examines colorful moments in the poem …
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forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit
… duration of the structure. In Book One of the Aeneid, as the titular hero and his crew are washed ashore and contemplating the harrows of their journey, Aeneas entreats his companions to stay resolute in their search for a New Troy, offering the hope that despite their challenges and suffering, …
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Quid restat profugis? Exile and power in Silius Italicus’ Punica
… is once again reified (just as in Vergil’s Aeneid) not just through deciding who belongs where, but more importantly who does not belong where. In service of this analysis, the texts of other poets and prose authors who informed Silius’ writing is also brought to bear, including Livy, Ovid, …
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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 …
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Fama proditrix: Rumor in Ovid, Statius, and Prudentius
… by Virgil’s famous personification of Fama in Aeneid 4, and their indebtedness to Virgil is expressed variously through their references to Fama in their own works. Chapter one examines Ovid’s personification of Fama, and especially the ecphrasis of the House of Fama in Metamorphoses 12.39–63. …
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LE ETIMOLOGIE GRECHE NEI COMMENTARII DI SERVIO A VIRGILIO
… CE) is undoubtedly his commentary on Virgil's Aeneid, Eclogues, and Georgics. This thesis provides the first ever complete lexicon of the Greek etymological notations (i.e. implying Greek language in all its forms) that Servius included in his commentary on Virgil. The notes have been …
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The Nature of the Interplay of Classical and Biblical Intertexts in Milton's Poetry
… epics, Homer’s <i>Odyssey</i> and Virgil’s <i>Aeneid</i>, therefore, set the <i>catabasis</i> at the centre of the poem to mark its distinction. Previous scholarship has argued that Milton removed <i>catabasis</i> from the centre to outlying sections of <i>Paradise Lost</i>. My published work …
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Jesus Caesar : a Roman reading of John 18:28 - 19:22
… close to hic vir, hic est from Vergil’s Aeneid (6.791) to mark it as a literary allusion. An exegetical analysis of John 18:28—19:22, the passages most imprinted with Latin words and Roman concepts, reveals a Roman Pilate who tests the loyalty of both Jesus and ‘the Jews’ to Caesar. This …
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