TY - BOOK AU - Thornton,Agathe TI - The living universe: gods and men in Virgil's Aeneid T2 - Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum SN - 9789004327634 AV - PA6825 .T53 1976b U1 - 873.01 PY - 1976/// CY - Lugduni Batavorum PB - Brill KW - Virgil. KW - Aeneas KW - Aeneis (Virgil) KW - fast KW - Epic poetry, Latin KW - History and criticism KW - Cosmology, Ancient, in literature KW - Gods, Roman, in literature KW - Literature KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - Also published Dunedin : University of Otago Press, 1976; New Zealand author; Includes indexes; Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-216); Preliminary Material -- Homer, Virgil’s model, as the ‘educator’ of Greece and Rome -- The Picture of the Universe of an educated Roman in the first century B.C. -- The Cosmos as described by Anchises -- The Spheres of the Cosmos and the Beings living in them -- The Phases in the movement of the cosmos -- First Phase -- Second Phase (1.657-5.603) -- Third Phase (5.604-7.285) -- Fourth Phase (7.286-12.133, 215) -- Fifth Phase: 12.134, 216-end -- The plot of the Aeneid and the Gods in it -- ira and furor -- The Nisus and Euryalus Episode in the Aeneid (9.176ff) -- Notes on pages XL-4 -- General Index; Available to subscribing member institutions only UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004327634 ER -