Virgil's Aeneid

A Critical Description

Kenneth Quinn

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9781032553535
• eBook ISBN: 9781000929201
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

First published in 1968, Virgil's Aeneid is to help all who approach the long and difficult poem seriously (in Latin or in English) to read it with discerning appreciation. This is not a handbook, nor is it a commentary: it is a critical description, from a number of aspects, of a poetic structure. A detailed analysis of the twelve books is preceded by a preliminary exploration of the poem's central purpose, a careful reconstruction of the historical and artistic circumstances, and a description of the main outlines of the poem's structure; two further chapters provide a discussion of a number of theoretical problem and an analysis of the verbal fabric. This book will be of interest to students of classical literature and history.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Original Title Page
• Original Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Introduction
• I. The First Decade
• II. The Third Decade
• III. The Fourth and Fifth Decades
• IV. Machiavelli’s Use of Livy
• V. Livy and the Germans
• VI. Livy and Montesquieu
• VII. Livy and Macaulay
• VIII. Florentine Manuscripts of Livy in the Fifteenth Century
• Appendix to Chapter VIII: Table of Manuscripts
• Index of Names
• Subject Index