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Sites about Aeneid
by Virgil
Characters: Aeneas, Anchises, Iulus, Dido, Venus, Juno
Keywords: Troy, Rome, founding, epic
Critical sites about Aeneid
- Ambiguity and the Female Warrior: Vergil’s Camilla
- http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ElAnt/V4N1/becker.html
- “Vergil’s female warrior, Camilla, is a different sort of character, and purposefully so. I would like to go a step further than noting her ambiguity. What needs more elucidation is the very purpose of her ambiguity, and I would like to propose an answer: that the character of Camilla neatly expresses not just her ambiguity but the ambiguity of the Aeneid as a whole.”
- Contains: Character Analysis
- Author: Trudy Harrington Becker
- From: Electronic Antiquity Vol. 4 no. 1 August 1997
- Keywords:
- Making Roman-ness and the Aeneid
- http://www.ucpress.edu/scan/ca-free/161/toll.161.pdf
- ‘This essay attempts to develop some ideas about national identity as envisioned in the Aeneid, with two foci: the lack of clarity concerning Aeneas’ own nationality, and the inaccuracies in the descriptions of the foreigners portrayed on Aeneas’ Vulcanian shield. I aim to undermine the notion that Vergil’s own generation and Augustus’ regime should be assumed to be the “climax,” “culmination,” or “fulfillment” of the historical process as the Aeneid imagines it, and to present reasons for thinking that Vergil’s audience was being invited, instead, to imagine a very long-range future-to expand for themselves the scope of the poem and meet its challenge. I discuss the possibility that Vergil himself was not born either Roman or technically Italian and mention also the probable high proportion of his original audience born without the Roman franchise and admitted to it in the 80s or in 49. I argue that the extended historical range-finder through which the poem requires its readers to view themselves and their inheritors is designed to impose upon them the task of seeking a version of mos (civilized traditional customs) that can be made universal, and the task also of regarding present opponents as destined future fellow-Romans.”
- Contains: Content Analysis
- Author: Katharine Toll
- From: Classical Antiquity Volume 16 / No. 1 / April 1997
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Other (non-critical) sites about Aeneid
- Aeneid Book IV read in Latin by Wilfried Stroh
- “Professor Stroh�s performance of Aeneid Book IV was recorded digitally on April 10, 2000 by musician Georg Spoettl. ” Available online as a RealAudio file.
- From: Wired for Books
- From: Wired for Books
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- Vergil’s Aeneid
- http://ablemedia.com/ctcweb/netshots/vergil.htm
- This site provides background information to the Aeneid including historical information, study questions, and sources about the genre.
- Contains: Historical Context
- Author: Roger Dunkle
- From: Core Studies 1 Study Guide
- Author: Roger Dunkle
- From: Core Studies 1 Study Guide
- Keywords:
- Vergil’s Aeneid
- http://ablemedia.com/ctcweb/netshots/vergil.htm
- A study guide for Vergil’s Aeneid.
- Author: Roger Dunkle
- From: The Classical Origins of Western Culture
- Author: Roger Dunkle
- From: The Classical Origins of Western Culture
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