AENEID


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Like the previous examples, however, Lavinia's rebuke points to Virgil's imagination and his senseless use of anger in the Aeneid for reasons that are not apparent at first but that relate to Amata's madness and death by suicide.
Anger and Imagination in Dante and Virgil
In 2008, however, poet-scholar Sarah Ruden translated the Aeneid into elegant iambic pentameter, becoming the first woman ever to translate the poem.
POWER AND RHYTHM
The poet begins Seeing Things (1991) with a passage from Aeneid Book Six.
Virgil in Seamus Heaney's Human Chain: "images and symbols adequate to our predicament"
The act of hunting in the Aeneid as a recurring activity and one of symbolic importance has been studied extensively (Otis 1964:70ff., 372ff.; Putnam 1965: 153ff.; Davis 1968; Dunkle 1973, Lyne 1987:193ff., Staley 1991, et al.).
The deer hunter: a portrait of Aeneas
For ex ample, Smith notes that the first letter of each word of the opening of the Aeneid, arma virumque cano, forms an acronym of Livy's Ab Vrbe Condita (105), identifying the story as a foundation myth.
R. Alden Smith: Virgil. Blackwell Introductions to the Classical World
Cristelle Baskins, in her seminal exploration into Camilla imagery, recognized the complications involved in accounting for Camilla's significance in exemplary terms and persuasively argues that the heterogeneous nature of the Renaissance audience for painted narratives of the Aeneid demands the potential for a multiplicity of readings (75-102).
Constructing Camilla as "other" in renaissance visual narratives
For centuries, ambitious rulers have cloaked themselves in the mantle of patriotism they found in Virgil's epic poem the Aeneid. Elizabeth I minted coins with words from Virgil (70-19 BC), and America's Founders quoted him on the nation's great seal.
The emperor's new clothes
At the time, I drew on a line from the Aeneid by Virgil (70 - 19 BC): Vires acquirit eundo [Gathering strength as it goes.].
Appointment of deputy editor
Though apparently proficient in Greek and Latinhe translated, after all, the Odyssey and Ovid's Metamorphoses, and his 1973 version of the Aeneid won the National Book Awardhe is most known for bringing English readers the work of Italian poets, from modern practitioners to the greatest of them all, Dante.
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Lewis had a very high regard for the Aeneid by Publius Vergilius Maro is obvious from the many laudatory comments upon it to be found throughout his writings from early to late in his career.
C.S. Lewis's Lost Aeneid: Arms and the Exile
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