Vergil's Aeneid: Augustan Epic and Political Context

A collection of 14 papers in which contributors use diverging critical methods on a selection of extracts from Vergil's epic, with the examination of political references in the work being prominent, as well as the question of the Aeneid 's central meaning. Contents include: Vergil announcing the Aeneid. On Geo. 3.1-48 ( Egil Kraggerud ); The Peopling of the Underworld ( Anton Powell ); Vergil as a Republican ( Eckard Lefevre ); The Sword-Belt of Pallas: Moral Symbolism and Political Ideology ( Stephen Harrison );The Isolation of Turnus ( Richard F. Thomas ) and The End and the Meaning ( David West ).