The Primacy of Vision in Virgil's AeneidA fresh look at one of the masterpieces of Latin literature and how it contributes to a new visual culture and a new mythology of imperial Rome. |
What people are saying - Write a review
We haven't found any reviews in the usual places.
Contents
Prophaenomena ad Vergilium | 1 |
Ruse and Revelation Visions of the Divine and the Telos of Narrative | 24 |
Vision Past and Future | 60 |
Hic amor Love Vision and Destiny | 97 |
Vidi Vici Visions Victory and the Telos of Narrative | 128 |
Conclusion Ante ora parentum | 176 |
Notes | 183 |
223 | |
237 | |
247 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Achilles Allecto allusion Anchises Andromache Andromache’s appearance Argonautica aspect atque Augustan Augustus Austin Bacchus battlefield behold Book Buthrotum Cacus Caesar Carmentis character confirms contrast Creusa death Diana Dido and Aeneas Dido’s different divine Drances ecphrasis effect embassy encounter Epic Evander Evander’s evokes eyes father Feeney figure final scene finds fire first flame Forum Forum of Augustus future Galinsky gaze Georgics god’s goddess gods Gransden haec Hector Hercules hero Homeric Iliad Ilioneus imago influence Latin Latium Lausus Lavinia look Lucretius Mercury Merleau-Ponty Mezentius Michael C. J. Putnam narrative notes O’Hara oculis oculos Odysseus off offers oratores Oxford Palinurus Pallas passage past Penates poem quae R. D.Williams reflects rhetoric Roman Rome Rome’s Rutulians sacrifice Servius sight simile speak specifically speech suggests Tarquitus temple terque Tiber tibi tion trans Trojan Troy Turnus uultum Venus Vergilius Virgil Virgil’s Aeneid vision visual voyant-visible words Zanker