Book XI of the Aeneid covers four crucial days in Aeneas' struggle against the Latins. In it, Virgil gives us the funeral of Pallas, the great Latin war-council, Turnus' plan to ambush Aeneas, and the aristeia and death of Camilla. K. W. Gransden sees the second half of the Roman national epic as "Virgil's Iliad." In his introduction and commentary, he relates the themes and structure of Book XI not only to the rest of the Aeneid but also to relevant passages in the Iliad. Gransden shows how, despite his adoption of the epic form, Virgil's style is influenced by Alexandrian miniaturism, Callimachean theory, and the poetry of the neoteroi. In addition to questions of style and interpretation raised in the commentary, there are sections in the introduction covering the Virgilian hexameter and narrative technique.
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Book XI of the Aeneid covers four crucial days in Aeneas' struggle against the Latins. In this commentary, the themes and structure of Book XI are related not only to the rest of the Aeneid but to relevant passages in the Iliad and varying influences upon Virgil's style are considered.
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"Contrast between Turnus and Aeneas is compelling",
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This review is from: Virgil: Aeneid Book XI (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics) (Bk. 11) (Hardcover)
The 11th book of Virgil's Aeneid has much been accused of being a 'catalogue of misery'. "Not so", say KHVIII Classics. The contrasts and complex attitudes to war certainly have modern relevance. An excellent story of war and the different way it affects the characters. Many comparisons can be drawn with the 90s.
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Virgil chose as the central figure of his epic poem the Aeneid the Trojan hero Aineias from Homer's Iliad; he survived the fall of Troy, 'for it is destined that he should escape, that the race of Dardanus might not perish...and thus shall the might of Aineias reign among the Trojans, and his children's children who shall be born hereafter' (Iliad 20.302-8). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Virgil chose as the central figure of his epic poem the Aeneid the Trojan hero Aineias from Homer's Iliad; he survived the fall of Troy, 'for it is destined that he should escape, that the race of Dardanus might not perish...and thus shall the might of Aineias reign among the Trojans, and his children's children who shall be born hereafter' (Iliad 20.302-8). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
salus bello, alliterative pattern, cavalry engagement, implied author, first foot New!
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- The Eclogues & Georgics by Virgil in Back Matter
- Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics) by John Milton on page 15
- The Fall of Troy (Loeb Classical Library) by Quintus Smyrnaeus on page 22
- The Faerie Queene (Penguin Classics) by Edmund Spenser on page 22
- Story of Camilla (Cambridge Elementary Classics: Latin) by Virgil in Back Matter
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