Latin 602, “Vergil’s Aeneid”
January 25
Topic: Overview of the Aeneid
Readings:
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The Aeneid in English
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Duncan F. Kennedy, “Virgilian epic,” in The Cambridge Companion to Virgil,
ed. Charles Martindale (Cambridge 1997) pp. 145-154.
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Brooks Otis, “The Obsolescence of Epic”
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G. N. Knauer, “Vergil’s Aeneid and Homer,” Greek, Roman, and
Byzantine Studies 5 (1964) 61-84.
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Joseph Farrell, “Introduction: On Vergilian Intertextuality,” in Vergil’s
Georgics and the Traditions of Ancient Epic:
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The Art of Allusionin Literary History (New York 1991), pp. 3-25.
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Joseph Farrell, “The Virgilian Intertext,” in The Cambridge Companion
to Virgil, ed. Charles Martindale (Cambridge 1997) pp. 222-238. (online
version available)
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David Quint, “Repetition and Ideology in the Aeneid,” Epic and
Empire: Politics and Generic Form from Virgil to Milton (Princeton
1993) ch. 2, pp. 50-96.
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