Aeneid, book IX
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Aeneid, book IX
（Cambridge Greek and Latin classics）
Cambridge University Press, 1994
- : hbk
- : pbk
Available at 22 libraries
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Text in Latin, introd. and commentary in English
Bibliography: p. 251-254
Includes indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Aeneid IX marks the beginning of the full-scale narrative of the war between the Trojans and Turnus' Italians which occupies the last quarter of the epic. Two days during which Turnus launches a siege-assault on the Trojan camp while Aeneas is absent are separated by the nocturnal interlude of the ill-fated expedition of the romantic young Trojans Nisus and Euryalus. In this, the first major single-volume commentary in English on the book, Dr Hardie explores Virgil's transformation of Homeric models of battle narrative in the service of contemporary Roman ideology. The volume includes a detailed linguistic and thematic commentary on the text, and an introduction consisting of a series of interpretative essays on the book.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. The place of book IX in the second half of the Aeneid
- 2. The structure of book IX
- 3. Links with other books
- 4. Reworking Homer
- 5. Cities and sieges
- solidarity and division
- 6. Young men at war
- defining the epic hero
- Trojans and Italians
- 7. Turnus
- 8. Homeric gods and Roman religion
- knowledge human and divine
- recognition
- 9. The Nisus and Euryalus episode
- P. Vergili Maronis Aeneidos Liber IX
- Commentary
- Indexes.
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