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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.

O'Neill's Aeneid: Virgilian Allusion in Mourning Becomes Electra

International Journal of the Classical Tradition, 2013

With a primary focus on the character of the Chantyman, this essay traces a system of allusion to Virgil's Aeneid in Eugene O'Neill's adaptation of the Oresteia, Mourning Becomes Electra. O'Neill's drunken and enigmatic sailor has no corresponding character in Aeschylus' Oresteia, nor in its subsequent classical iterations. As I show, the Chantyman is explicitly crafted after the mythological Charon, imported from Book 6 of Virgil's Aeneid. Moreover, the use of this epic archetype serves to promote O'Neill's mechanism of predetermined causality, both by means of its thematic implications and structural position within the narrative of Aeneid 6. The allusion recalls the Virgilian unveiling of Aeneas' familial destiny and thereby underscores the broader and inevitable consequences of Brant's death upon the House of Mannon. Ultimately, this intertextual strategy augments O'Neill's self-professed project in this play: to recreate on the modern stage a tragic world order governed by fate, in the conspicuous absence of a divine apparatus.

The Narrative Composition of Book 8 of Vergil’s Aeneid. New Insights.

Acta Universitatis Carolinae Philologica: Graecolatina Pragensia 24, 2012, pp. 15-23. ISSN: 0567-8269.

The study analyses textual representations of Roman history in Book 8 of the Aeneid, focusing on the interrelation between the actual and fictional components in the text. It reconsiders an artistic representation of Aeneas’ shield from the narratological perspective and argues that the narrator’s selection of the shield’s tableaux results from the vision (focalization) of Aeneas.

Speech and narrative: characterisation techniques in the "Aeneid

1984

The thesis provides a comprehensive analysis of the characterisation of two of the major figures in the Aeneid, Aeneas and Turnus. Particular attention is paid to their direct speeches, all of which are examined and, where relevant, compared to Homeric models and parallels. To this purpose considerable use is made of the indices in Knauer's Die Aeneis und Homer. A more general comparison is made between the dramatic (direct speech) role of Aeneas and those of Homer's Achilles (Iliad) and Odysseus (Odyssey). An appraisal is made (from the viewpoint of depiction of character) of the relationship between the direct and indirect speeches in the Aeneid. Reasons are given to suggest that it is not mere chance, or for the sake of variety, that certain speeches of Aeneas and Turnus are expressed in oratio obliqua. In addition, the narrative portrayal of Aeneas and Turnus is considered in apposition to that of the speeches. A distinction is drawn between Vergil's direct method of...

The Poetics of Vision in Virgil's Aeneid, HSCP 109 (2017) 383-427

Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, 2017

A reading of passages of the Aeneid that involve acts of vision, analyzed in terms of ancient optics and active/passive dynamics, with a focus on language and poetic background. Three main sections: vision and knowledge, vision and desire, vision and power.