Table Of ContentA COMPANION TO
VERGIL’ AENEID
S
AND ITS
TRADITION
Edited by
Joseph Farrell and Michael C.J. Putnam
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A COMPANION TO VERGIL’ AENEID
S
AND ITS TRADITION
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A companion to Vergil’s Aeneid and its tradition / edited by Joseph Farrell and Michael C.J. Putnam.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4051-7577-7 (hardcover: alk. paper) 1. Vergil. Aeneis. 2. Vergil–Appreciation.
3. Epic poetry, Latin–History and criticism. 4. Aeneas (Legendary character) in literature. I. Farrell,
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Contents
Illustrations viii
Notes on Contributors x
Preface xv
Acknowledgments xvi
Note on References xvii
Introduction 1
Joseph Farrell and Michael C.J. Putnam
PART I The Aeneid in Antiquity 11
1 Vergil’s Library 13
Damien P. Nelis
2 On First Looking into Vergil’s Homer 26
Ralph Hexter
3 The Development of the Aeneas Legend 37
Sergio Casali
4 Aeneas’ Sacral Authority 52
Vassiliki Panoussi
5 Vergil’s Roman 66
J.D. Reed
6 Vergil, Ovid, and the Poetry of Exile 80
Michael C.J. Putnam
7 The Unfinished Aeneid? 96
James J. O’Hara
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8 The Life of Vergil before Donatus 107
Fabio Stok
PART II Medieval and Renaissance Receptions 121
9 Vergil and St. Augustine 123
Garry Wills
10 Felix Casus: The Dares and Dictys Legends of Aeneas 133
Sarah Spence
11 Vergil in Dante 147
Rachel Jacoff
12 Marvelous Vergil in the Ferrarese Renaissance 158
Dennis Looney
13 Spenser’s Vergil: The Faerie Queene and the Aeneid 173
Philip Hardie
14 The Aeneid in the Age of Milton 186
Henry Power
15 Practicing What They Preach? Vergil and the Jesuits 203
Yasmin Haskell
16 The Aeneid from the Aztecs to the Dark Virgin:
Vergil, Native Tradition, and Latin Poetry in
Colonial Mexico from Sahagún’s Memoriales (1563)
to Villerías’ Guadalupe (1724) 217
Andrew Laird
17 Vergil and Printed Books, 1500–1800 234
Craig Kallendorf
PART III The Aeneid in Music and the Visual Arts 251
18 Vergil and the Pamphili Family in Piazza Navona, Rome 253
Ingrid Rowland
19 Visual and Verbal Translation of Myth:
Neptune in Vergil, Rubens, and Dryden 270
Reuben A. Brower
20 The Æneas of Vergil: A Dramatic Performance
Presented in the Original Latin by John Ogilby 290
Kristi Eastin
21 Empire and Exile: Vergil in Romantic Art 311
David Blayney Brown
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Contents vii
22 Laocoons 325
Glenn W. Most
23 Vergil in Music 341
William Fitzgerald
PART IV The American Aeneid 353
24 Vergil and the Early American Republic 355
Carl J. Richard
25 Why Did American Women Read the Aeneid? 366
Caroline Winterer
26 Vergil in the Black American Experience 376
Michele Valerie Ronnick
27 Vergil and Founding Violence 391
Michèle Lowrie
28 Figuring the Founder: Vergil and the Challenge
of Autocracy 404
Joy Connolly
PART V Modern Reactions to the Aeneid 419
29 Classic Vergil 421
Kenneth Haynes
30 Vergil’s Detractors 435
Joseph Farrell
31 Mind the Gap: On Foreignizing Translations
of the Aeneid 449
Susanna Morton Braund
32 Vergil’s Aeneid and Contemporary Poetry 465
Karl Kirchwey
Bibliography 482
Index 531
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Illustrations
Figures
17.1 Le Plat (1807–8, 2.11), Wedding of Dido and Aeneas 238
17.2 Meyen (1616, 161), with marginalia of Rector Hesse 241
17.3 Perrin (1664), title page 242
17.4 Brant (1502, 407v), Death of Turnus 244
17.5 [Vergil] (1586, 221v), beginning of Aen. 11 245
17.6 Dryden (1716, vol. 2, following p. 454), Death of Dido (Aen. 4) 246
17.7 Bartoli (1780–2, nr. 37), Laocoon 247
17.8 Dryden (1803, vol. 1, following p. 160), Death of Dido 248
18.1 P ietro da Cortona, The Council of the Gods (Aen. 10). Galleria,
Palazzo Pamphili, Rome 259
18.2 P ietro da Cortona, Aeolus Unleashes the Winds (Aen. 1).
Galleria, Palazzo Pamphili, Rome 260
18.3 P ietro da Cortona, The Landing of Aeneas. Galleria,
Palazzo Pamphili, Rome 261
18.4 P ietro da Cortona, Venus Receives the Arms of Aeneas
from Vulcan. Galleria, Palazzo Pamphili, Rome 262
18.5 P ietro da Cortona, The Slaying of Turnus. Galleria,
Palazzo Pamphili, Rome 263
18.6 G ian Lorenzo Bernini, with help from Athanasius Kircher, S.J.,
The Fountain of the Four Rivers 266
19.1 Marcantonio Raimondi, Neptune Quelling the Storm 279
19.2 T heodoor van Thulden (after Peter Paul Rubens),
in Jean Gaspard Gevaerts (Gevartius), Pompa introitus
honori Serenissimi Principis Ferdinandi Austriaci
Hispaniarum Infantis… 281
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Illustrations ix
19.3 Franz Cleyn, Neptune and Venus 284
20.1 Francis Cleyn, Aeneas in the Storm (Aen. 1) 292
20.2 Francis Cleyn, Dido and Anna (Aen. 4) 296
20.3 Francis Cleyn, Aeneas and the Cumaean Sibyl (Aen. 6) 297
20.4 François Chauveau, Encounter with the Harpies (Aen. 3) 300
20.5 Francis Cleyn, Aeneas and Celaeno (Aen. 3) 301
20.6 Francis Cleyn, “We have eaten our tables!” (Aen. 7) 303
20.7 François Chauveau, Nisus’ Last Stand (Aen. 9) 304
20.8 Francis Cleyn, Nisus’ Last Stand (Aen. 9) 305
20.9 Wenceslaus Hollar, “Aeneae Troiani Navigatio” 306
21.1 Samuel Palmer, A Rustic Scene 321
22.1 Laocoon sculpture group from the Esquiline 330
22.2 Eva Hesse, Laocoon 337
22.3 Charles Addams, Laocoon Sausage 340
26.1a and b Howard University program, “The Bimillennium
Vergilianum Celebration In Honor of the Two Thousandth
Anniversary of Vergil’s Birth, April 23, 1930.” 387
Plates
(between pages 302 and 303)
Plate 1 Pietro da Cortona and Francesco Borromini, Galleria, Palazzo Pamphili,
Rome
Plate 2 Peter Paul Rubens, Neptune Calming the Tempest
Plate 3 J.M.W. Turner, Aeneas and the Sibyl, Lake Avernus
Plate 4 J.M.W. Turner, Dido and Aeneas
Plate 5 William Blake, The Inscription over Hell Gate
Plate 6 El Greco, Laocoön
Plate 7 Angelika Kauffmann, Vergil Reading the “Aeneid” to Augustus
and Octavia
Plate 8 J.-A.-D. Ingres, Auguste écoutant la lecture de l’Enéide/
Tu Marcellus eris
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