The Cambridge Companion to Virgil (Cambridge Companions to Literature)

Cambridge University Press
Edition: 2, 4/18/2019
EAN 9781316621349, ISBN10: 1316621340

Paperback, 570 pages, 22.9 x 21.3 x 2.5 cm
Language: English

The poet Virgil remains the most significant and influential figure in Latin literature, and this expanded and updated Companion covers his life, work, and reception from antiquity to the present. The Aeneid, the Eclogues, the Georgics, and the Appendix Vergiliana are all discussed, as are art, history, politics, and philosophy; Virgil's literary style is carefully explored along with poetic traditions before and since, and chapters engage with his poems and their reception from perspectives including intertextuality, narratology, gender theory, philology and historicism. Leading authors cover topics from translations and commentaries to genre, authority, and characterisation, providing revised and updated recommendations for further reading. This volume is an accessible introduction to Virgil and his legacy for students and teachers, while also providing wide-ranging and in-depth investigations that will appeal to scholars of classical literature and other disciplines.

1. Introduction
'the classic of all Europe' Charles Martindale
Part I. Receptions
2. Modern receptions and their interpretative implications
the case of T. S. Eliot Duncan F. Kennedy
3. Aspects of Virgil's reception in antiquity Richard Tarrant
4. The Appendix Vergiliana Scott McGill
5. Augustine's Virgil Gillian Clark
6a. The Virgil commentary of Servius Don Fowler (revised by Sergio Casali and Fabio Stok)
6b. Postclassical commentary Sergio Casali and Fabio Stok
7. Virgil in English translation Colin Burrow
8. Virgils from Dante to Milton Colin Burrow
9. Virgil in art L. B. T. Houghton
Part II. Forms
10. Green politics
the Eclogues Charles Martindale
11. Virgilian didaxis
value and meaning in the Georgics William W. Batstone
12. Virgilian epic Duncan F. Kennedy
13. Closure and the Book of Virgil Elena Theodorakopoulos
Part III. Contexts
14. Poetry and power
Virgil's poetry in a contemporary context Richard Tarrant
15. Rome and its traditions James E. G. Zetzel
16. Virgil and the cosmos
religious and philosophical ideas Susanna Braund
17. Virgil's intertextual personae Joseph Farrell
18. Virgil and tragedy Philip Hardie
Part IV. Themes
19. Virgil as a poet Victoria Moul
20. Virgil's style James J. O'Hara
21. Character in Virgil Helen Lovatt
22a. Virgilian narrative
storytelling Don Fowler (revised by Alessandro Barchiesi)
22b. Virgilian narrative
ecphrasis Alessandro Barchiesi
23. Sons and lovers
sexuality and gender in Virgil's poetry Ellen Oliensis
24. Authority Fiachra Mac Góráin
Envois
25. The death of Virgil Fiona Cox
26. Virgil
the future? Fiachra Mac Góráin
Dateline compiled by Genevieve Liveley.