The Living Universe

Gods and Men in Virgil's Aeneid

• Author(s): Agathe Thornton,
• Publisher: BRILL
• Pages: 223
• ISBN_10: 9004327630
  ISBN_13: 9789004327634
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / Ancient & Classical , Literary Criticism / Medieval , History / Ancient / General , History / Civilization ,

Description:... 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.