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04583aam a2200469 i 4500 001 3EA5DF00072811ED93C2E7E557ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220719010102 008 200930t20212021nju b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2020044604 020 $a 0691211167 020 $a 9780691211169 035 $a (OCoLC)1198988095 040 $a ICU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d BDX $d YDX $d OCLCF $d TOH $d YDX $d OBE $d OCLCO $d GYG $d IaU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PA6825 $b .F36 2021 082 00 $a 873/.01 $2 23 100 1 $a Farrell, Joseph, $d 1955- $e author. 245 10 $a Juno's Aeneid : $b a battle for heroic identity / $c Joseph Farrell. 264 1 $a Princeton, New Jersey : $b Princeton University Press, $c [2021] 300 $a xvii, 360 pages ; $c 25 cm 490 1 $a Martin classical lectures 520 $a "This book, based on the prestigious Martin Lectures, given annually at Oberlin College, offers a major new interpretation of Vergil's Aeneid. Scholars have tended to view Vergil's poem as an attempt to combine aspects of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey into a single epic. Joseph Farrell argues, by contrast, that Vergil's aim is not to combine them, but instead to stage a contest to decide which Homeric hero the Aeneid will most resemble. The goddess Juno works, in the poem, to make it another Iliad - a tragedy of death and destruction - against the narrator's apparent intention to make it another Odyssey - a comedy of homecoming and marriage. Farrell begins by illustrating his method of interpretation and its advantages over previous treatments of Vergil and Homer. He then turns to what he regards as the most fruitful of interpretative possibilities. Ancient ethical philosophy treated Homer's principal heroes, Achilles in the Iliad and Odysseus in the Odyssey, as key examples of heroic or "kingly" behaviour, but also stressed their fundamental differences from one another. Achilles is an intransigent, solipsistic man of violence, Odysseus one of intelligence, perspicacity, flexibility, and self-control. Many ancient thinkers contrast the heroes in these terms, with none imagining a stable combination of the two. Farrell argues that this supports his contention that Vergil does not aim to combine them, but to stage a Homeric contest for the soul of his hero and his poem. The final chapter considers the political relevance of this contest to Rome's leader, Caesar Augustus, who counted Aeneas as the mythical founder of his own family. An ultimately Iliadic or an Odyssean Aeneid would reflect in very different ways upon the ethical legitimacy of Augustus' regime"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 505 00 $g Introduction -- $t How to read the Aeneid. $t Form, content, context -- $t Homer's Aeneid -- $t The ethical Aeneid -- $t Coming attractions -- $t Arms and a man -- $t Where to begin? -- $t Displaced persons -- $t What is at stake? -- $t Intertextual chronology -- $t Enigmas of arrival -- $t Intertextual Africa -- $t Intertextual Dido -- $t Unintended consequences -- $t Going forward -- $t Third ways -- $t None of the above? -- $t Failure is always an option : the Aeneid and the epic cycle -- $t A second Argo : the Aeneid and Apollonius -- $t So many labors : the Aeneid as Heracleid -- $t Weddings, funerals, and madness : dramatic plots in the Aeneid -- $t Historical intertexts in Roman epics -- $t Some conclusions -- $t Reading Aeneas -- $t A new kind of hero? -- $t Aeneas, a heroic reader -- $t Books 1-4, good kings and bad -- $t Books 5-8, Aeneas' heroic education -- $t Books 9-12. becoming Achilles -- $t How to read the Aeneid. 600 00 $a Virgil. $t Aeneis. 600 00 $a Juno $c (Roman deity) $x In literature. 600 00 $a Homer $x Influence. 600 07 $a Homer. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00029137 600 07 $a Juno $c (Roman deity) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00985005 630 07 $a Aeneis (Virgil) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01356034 650 0 $a Epic poetry, Latin $x History and criticism. 650 7 $a Epic poetry, Latin. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00913954 650 7 $a Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00972484 650 7 $a Literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00999953 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 $a Literary criticism. $2 lcgft 776 08 $i Online version: $a Farrell, Joseph, 1955- $t Juno's Aeneid $d Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, 2021. $z 9780691211176 $w (DLC) 2020044605 830 0 $a Martin classical lectures. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117031541.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3EA5DF00072811ED93C2E7E557ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search