Other Aeneids: Rewriting Three Passages of the Aeneid in the Codex Salmasianus (original) (raw)

Reimagining Virgil: A Twelfth-Century Humanist Reinvents the Aeneid

This comparative study examines three Virgilian descriptions re-invented by the anonymous medieval romancer of the Roman d'Énéas. They include 1) an allegory («Fama» –Aeneid IV); 2) a dramatic scenario of a siege from Aeneid IX); and 3) the final dramatic struggle between Eneas and his nemesis, Turnus (Book XII). The romance, an amplified version of Virgil’s masterpiece, is a careful re-imagining of the classic. The author’s voice is unique, one that creates a free and original imitation. Through amplification, chronological reorganization, or a reduced role for divine intervention, the result is a humanist-inspired exposition, at once personal and subjective, which draws on mid-twelfth century historical realities. Keywords: Adaptation, Roman d’Énéas, Romances of Antiquity, Translation, Twelfth-Century Renaissance, Humanism, Vernacular composition, Pragmatics, Cognition, Allegory.

The Virgilian Tradition: The First Fifteen Hundred Years

2008

"This indispensable anthology gathers texts and translations that cover major aspects of the Virgilian tradition from the Roman poet's own lifetime to the year 1500. Unprecedented in scope, the book presents a vast compendium of materials that illuminate how poets, teachers, students, and common folk responded to Virgil and his poetry. The volume offers a brief commentary on each text, many of which are translated into English for the first time."

Virgilian Criticism and the Intertextual Aeneid

Mnemosyne, 2023

This review article of Joseph Farrell’s 2021 monograph on Virgil’s Aeneid (Juno’s Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity, Princeton and Oxford) takes the cue from Farrell’s analysis of Virgil’s intertextuality with the Homeric epics and provides a methodological re-assessment of intertextuality in Virgilian studies and Latin literature more broadly. It attempts to retrace the theoretical history and some of the main applications of Latin intertextual studies and suggests some possible ways for Latinists to engage more profoundly with deconstructive criticism and post-critique.

review of D. Nelis, Vergil's Aeneid and the Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius (Leeds 2001), & W. Clausen, Virgil's Aeneid: Decorum, Allusion, and Ideology (Leipzig 2002), Journal of Roman Studies 93 (2003) 368-70.

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Georgics 2.458–542: Virgil, Aratus and Empedocles1

Dictynna

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