Virgil's Aeneid: A Reader's Guide

Preface vii

Introduction 1

1 Virgil’s Hero 11

Three Scenes of Crisis 12

The Hero and Personal Loss 18

The Hero as Warrior (10.510–605) 24

Some Observations on Character 26

2 The Victims 32

Dido 32

Nisus and Euryalus 35

Pallas and Lausus 38

Some Aspects of Turnus 43

Camilla 52

Italy 54

3 Fate and the Gods 61

The Roman Gods 62

The Gods in the Aeneid 67

Fate in the Aeneid 74

4 Virgil’s Troy 77

The Roman Troy 77

The Destruction of Troy (Aeneid, Book II) 82

Other Images of the Destruction of Troy (6.494–547, 1.450–93) 86

Andromache’s Troy Restored (3.294–505) 90

The Trojan Games (5.104–544) 94

The Transformation of Troy (5.485–544) 100

The lusus Troiae (5.545–603) 102

5 Rome, the rerum imago 105

Jupiter’s Revelation (1.254–96) 107

Anchises’ Review (6.756–892) 109

The Shield of Aeneas (8.626–728) 113

6 Virgil, His Life and Works 120

His Life and Times 120

The Eclogues 125

The Georgics 133

Appendix: The Latin Hexameter 143

Word Accent 143

Verse Ictus 144

Accent and Ictus 144

Caesura and Diaeresis 145

The Third-Foot Caesura 145

The First Foot 146

The Hexameter Line 147

The Catullan Molossus 151

General Index 153

Index of Passages 155