Latin 602, “Vergil’s Aeneid”

January 25

Topic: Overview of the Aeneid

Readings:

• The Aeneid in English
• Duncan F. Kennedy, “Virgilian epic,” in The Cambridge Companion to Virgil, ed. Charles Martindale (Cambridge 1997) pp. 145-154.
• Brooks Otis, “The Obsolescence of Epic”
• G. N. Knauer, “Vergil’s Aeneid and Homer,” Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 5 (1964) 61-84.
• Joseph Farrell, “Introduction: On Vergilian Intertextuality,” in Vergil’s Georgics and the Traditions of Ancient Epic:
• The Art of Allusionin Literary History (New York 1991), pp. 3-25.
• Joseph Farrell, “The Virgilian Intertext,” in The Cambridge Companion to Virgil, ed. Charles Martindale (Cambridge 1997) pp. 222-238. (online version available)
• 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.