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Sites about Aeneid

by Virgil

Characters: Aeneas, Anchises, Iulus, Dido, Venus, Juno
Keywords: Troy, Rome, founding, epic

Critical sites about Aeneid

Ambiguity and the Female Warrior: Vergil’s Camilla

http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ElAnt/V4N1/becker.html

“Vergil’s female warrior, Camilla, is a different sort of character, and purposefully so. I would like to go a step further than noting her ambiguity. What needs more elucidation is the very purpose of her ambiguity, and I would like to propose an answer: that the character of Camilla neatly expresses not just her ambiguity but the ambiguity of the Aeneid as a whole.”

Contains: Character Analysis

Author: Trudy Harrington Becker

From: Electronic Antiquity Vol. 4 no. 1 August 1997

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Making Roman-ness and the Aeneid

http://www.ucpress.edu/scan/ca-free/161/toll.161.pdf

‘This essay attempts to develop some ideas about national identity as envisioned in the Aeneid, with two foci: the lack of clarity concerning Aeneas’ own nationality, and the inaccuracies in the descriptions of the foreigners portrayed on Aeneas’ Vulcanian shield. I aim to undermine the notion that Vergil’s own generation and Augustus’ regime should be assumed to be the “climax,” “culmination,” or “fulfillment” of the historical process as the Aeneid imagines it, and to present reasons for thinking that Vergil’s audience was being invited, instead, to imagine a very long-range future-to expand for themselves the scope of the poem and meet its challenge. I discuss the possibility that Vergil himself was not born either Roman or technically Italian and mention also the probable high proportion of his original audience born without the Roman franchise and admitted to it in the 80s or in 49. I argue that the extended historical range-finder through which the poem requires its readers to view themselves and their inheritors is designed to impose upon them the task of seeking a version of mos (civilized traditional customs) that can be made universal, and the task also of regarding present opponents as destined future fellow-Romans.”

Contains: Content Analysis

Author: Katharine Toll

From: Classical Antiquity Volume 16 / No. 1 / April 1997

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Other (non-critical) sites about Aeneid

Aeneid Book IV read in Latin by Wilfried Stroh

“Professor Stroh�s performance of Aeneid Book IV was recorded digitally on April 10, 2000 by musician Georg Spoettl. ” Available online as a RealAudio file.

From: Wired for Books

From: Wired for Books

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Vergil’s Aeneid

http://ablemedia.com/ctcweb/netshots/vergil.htm

This site provides background information to the Aeneid including historical information, study questions, and sources about the genre.

Contains: Historical Context

Author: Roger Dunkle

From: Core Studies 1 Study Guide

Author: Roger Dunkle

From: Core Studies 1 Study Guide

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Vergil’s Aeneid

http://ablemedia.com/ctcweb/netshots/vergil.htm

A study guide for Vergil’s Aeneid.

Author: Roger Dunkle

From: The Classical Origins of Western Culture

Author: Roger Dunkle

From: The Classical Origins of Western Culture

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Last Updated Apr 29, 2013