TY  - BOOK
AU  - Farron,Steven
TI  - Vergil's Aeneid: a poem of grief and love 
T2  - Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica batava. Supplementum,
SN  - 9789004329188
AV  - PA6825 .F37 1993
U1  - 873/.01 20
PY  - 1993///
CY  - Leiden, New York
PB  - E.J. Brill
KW  - Virgil.
KW  - Aeneas
KW  - Aeneis (Virgil)
KW  - fast
KW  - Epic poetry, Latin
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Grief in literature
KW  - Literature
KW  - Love in literature
KW  - Rome
KW  - In literature
KW  - Rome (Empire)
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-171) and index; Preliminary Material; Steven Farron --; Nisus and Euryalus; Steven Farron --; Ancient and modern literary attitudes; Steven Farron --; The poem of grief and love; Steven Farron --; Postscript; Steven Farron --; Recent interpretations of the Nisus-Euryalus episode; Steven Farron --; Bibliography; Steven Farron --; Index; Steven Farron --; Supplements to Mnemosyne; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - For more than a century, critics of the Aeneid have assumed that all or most of its episodes must propound something about Aeneas and his mission to found the Roman people, and through them about Rome and Augustus; whether that is their positive aspects, or their brutality and destructiveness, or the contrast between the public "voice" of their achievements and the private "voice" of the suffering they cause. This book argues that this assumption is wrong; the Aeneid 's main purpose was to present a series of emotionally moving episodes, especially pathetic ones. This book shows that the Aeneid makes more sense when regarded primarily as a series of emotion-arousing episodes than as expressing a pro-Aeneas, anti-Aeneas or two voices message. That is how it was regarded into the nineteenth century and that is what the ancient Greeks and Romans assumed was the main purpose of literature
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004329188
ER  -