The living universe : gods and men in Virgil's Aeneid /

The living universe : gods and men in Virgil's Aeneid /

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Main Author: Thornton, Agathe.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Lugduni Batavorum : Brill, 1976.

Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements 46.
Mnemosyne Supplements Online, Volumes 1-203, ISBN: 9789004381049.

Subjects:

Virgil. > Aeneis.
Aeneas > (Legendary character)
Aeneis (Virgil)
Epic poetry, Latin > History and criticism.
Cosmology, Ancient, in literature.
Epic poetry, Latin.
Gods, Roman, in literature.
Literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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Call Number: PA6825 .T53 1976b

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Homer, Virgil's model, as the 'educator' of Greece and Rome
  • The Picture of the Universe of an educated Roman in the first century B.C.
  • The Cosmos as described by Anchises
  • The Spheres of the Cosmos and the Beings living in them
  • The Phases in the movement of the cosmos
  • First Phase
  • Second Phase (1.657-5.603)
  • Third Phase (5.604-7.285)
  • Fourth Phase (7.286-12.133, 215)
  • Fifth Phase: 12.134, 216-end
  • The plot of the Aeneid and the Gods in it
  • ira and furor
  • The Nisus and Euryalus Episode in the Aeneid (9.176ff)
  • Notes on pages XL-4
  • General Index.