Latin 228 and 409, "Vergil's Aeneid"
Schedule and Assignments
Contents
Week 1: Introduction
Wednesday, September 6
Readings
Week 2: Eclogues and Georgics
Monday, September 11: Eclogues
Readings
- Eclogues 1-10 (in Latin or English)
- Joseph Farrell, Vergil's Georgics and the
Traditions of Ancient Epic: The Art of Allusion in Literary
History (New York 1991), ch. 7, "Vergil's Early
Career," pp. 275-314.
Wednesday, September 13: Georgics
Readings
- Georgics 1-4 (in Latin or English)
- Farrell, "Vergil's Early Career," pp. 314-24
- Brooks Otis, Virgil: A Study in Civilized Poetry
(Oxford 1964), ch. 2, "From Homer to Virgil: The Obsolescence of
Epic," pp. 5-40
Week 3: Aeneid 1
Monday, September 18
Readings
- Aeneid 1.1-156
- Viktor Pöschl, The Art of Vergil: Image and Symbol in
the Aeneid, tr. Gerda Seligson (Ann Arbor 1962), pp. 1-33
- Adam Parry, "The Two Voices of Virgil's Aeneid,"
Arion 2 (1963) 66-80; rpt. in Virgil: A Collection
of Critical Essays, ed.Steele Commager (1966), pp. 107-23;
Virgil's Aeneid, ed. Harold Bloom, pp. 57-73
Wednesday, September 20
Readings
- Aeneid 1.418-493
- Ward W. Briggs, Jr., Narrative and Simile from the
Georgics in the Aeneid,
Mnemosyne Supplement 58 (Leiden 1980), pp. 68-81
- R. D. Williams, "The Pictures on Dido's Temple
(Aeneid 1.450-93)," Classical Quarterly 10
(1960), 145-51; rpt. in Oxford Readings in Vergil's
Aeneid, ed. S. J. Harrison (1990), pp. 37-45
- Don Fowler, "Deviant Focalisaton in Virgil's Aeneid,"
Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society 216
(1990), 42-63
Week 4: Aeneid 2
Monday, September 25
Readings
- Aeneid 2.199-249, 453-558
- B. M. W. Knox, "The Serpent and the Flame: The Imagery of the
Second Book of the Aeneid," American Journal of
Philology 71 (1950) 379-400; rpt. in Virgil: A Collection of
Critical Essays, ed.Steele Commager (1966), pp. 124-42
- Ralph Hexter, "What Was the Trojan Horse Made Of?: Interpreting
Vergil's Aeneid," Yale Journal of Criticism
3 (1989-1990), 109-31
Wednesday, September 27
MOO session with Ralph Hexter
NB: A full transcript of this session is now available in
raw and
edited form.
Week 5: Aeneid 3
Monday, October 2
Readings
- Aeneid 3.69-191
- David Quint, "Repetition and Ideology," ch. 2 in Epic and
Empire: Politics and Generic Form from Virgil to Milton, pp.
50-96 [50-65].
Wednesday, October 4
Readings
- Aeneid 3.588-691
- Debra Hershkowitz, "The Aeneid in Aeneid
3," Vergilius 37 (1991)
69-76.
Week 6: Aeneid 4
Monday, October 9
Readings
- Aeneid 4.296-449
- Francis Cairns, Virgil's Augustan Epic, ch. 2, "Kingship
in the Love Affair of Aeneas and Dido," pp. 29-57
Wednesday, October 11
Readings
- Aeneid 4.450-504, 630-705
- Christine Perkell, "Dido, Creusa, and the Quality of Victory in
Virgil's Aeneid" Women's Studies 8 (1981)
201-23
Week 7: Aeneid 5
Monday, October 16: FALL BREAK
Wednesday, October 18
Readings
- Harold Bloom, The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of
Poetry (Oxford 1973), "Introduction," pp. 5-16.
- Harold Bloom, Ruin the Sacred Truths: Poetry and Belief from
the Bible to the Present (Cambrdge, Mass. 1987), ch. 2 "From
Homer to Dante," pp. 27-50.
- Richard Heinze, Vergil's Epic Technique, tr. Hazel
and David Harvey and Fred Robertson (Berkeley 1993), ch. 4 "The
Games," pp. 121-41
- S. Georgia Nugent, "Vergil's Voice of the Women in
Aeneid V," Arethusa
25 (1992) 255-92.
Week 8: Aeneid 6
Monday, October 23
Readings
- Aeneid 6.1-41, 264-335
- R. D. Williams, "The Sixth Book of the Aeneid,"
Greece & Rome 11 (1964) 48-63; rpt. in Oxford
Readings in Vergil's Aeneid, ed. S. J. Harrison (1990), 191-207
- Georg Luck, "Virgil and the Mystery Religions," American
Journal of Philology 94 (1973) 147-66
- R. A. Brooks, "Discolor aura: Reflections on the Golden Bough,"
American Journal of Philology 74 (1953) 260-80; rpt. in
Virgil: A Collection of Critical Essays, ed.Steele
Commager (1966), pp. 143-63
Wednesday, October 25
Readings
- Aeneid 6.756-901
- Agnes Kirsopp Michels, "The Insomnium of Aeneas," Classical
Quarterly 31 (1981) 140-46
- D. C. Feeney, "History and Revelation in Vergil's Underworld,"
Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society 212
(1986), 1-24
- James E. G. Zetzel, "ROMANE MEMENTO: Justice and Judgment in
Aeneid 6," Transactions and Proceedings of the
American Philological Association 119 (1989) 263-84
Week 9: Aeneid 7
Monday, October 30
Readings
- Aeneid 7.1-45, 170-91, 475-510
- Review Pöschl, pp. 24-33
- K. J. Reckford, "Latent Tragedy in Aeneid VII,
1-285," American Journal of Philology 82 (1961) 252-69
- Eduard Fraenkel, "Some Aspects of the Structure of
Aeneid VII," Journal of Roman Studies 35
(1945) 1-14; rpt. in Oxford Readings in Vergil's Aeneid,
ed. S. J. Harrison (1990), pp. 253-76
Wednesday, November 1
Readings
- Aeneid 7.641-817
- James J. O'Hara, "Messapus, Cycnus, and the Order of Vergil's
Catalogue of Italian Heroes," Phoenix 43 (1989) 35-38
- Barbara Weiden Boyd, "Virgil's Camilla and the Traditions of
Catalogue and Ecphrasis (Aeneid 7.803-817),"
American Journal of Philology 113 (1992) 213-34
Week 10: Aeneid 8
Monday, November 6
Readings
- Aeneid 8.184-279
- G. N. Knauer, "Vergil's Aeneid and Homer"
Greek, Roman & Byzantine Studies 5 (1964) 61-84; rpt.
Aufstieg und Niedergang der Römischen Welt 2.31 (1981),
pp. 870-90; Oxford Readings in Vergil's Aeneid, ed. S. J.
Harrison (1990), pp.390-412
- William S. Anderson, "Virgil's Second Iliad," Transactions
and Proceedings of the American Philological Association 88
(1957) 17-30; rpt. in Oxford Readings in Vergil's Aeneid,
ed. S. J. Harrison (1990), pp. 239-52
Wednesday, November 8
Readings
- Aeneid 8.370-453, 608-731
- Philip Hardie, Virgil's Aeneid: Cosmos and
Imperium (Oxford 1986), ch. 8, "The Shield of Aeneas: The
Cosmic Icon," pp. 336-76
- Ruth Scodel and Richard F.Thomas,"Vergil and the Euphrates,"
American Journal of Philology 105 (1984), 339
- James J. Clauss, "Vergil and the Euphrates Revisited,"
American Journal of Philology 109 (1988) 309-20
- Richard Jenkyns, "Virgil and the Euphrates," American
Journal of Philology 114 (1993) 115-21
Week 11: Aeneid 9
Monday, November 13
Readings
- Aeneid 9.176-314
- Philip Hardie, Virgil, Aeneid Book IX
(Cambridge 1994), "Introduction," pp. 1-34.
Wednesday, November 15
Readings
- Aeneid 9.315-449
- Michael C. J. Putnam, "Possessiveness, Sexuality, and Heroism
in the Aeneid," Vergilius 31 (1985), 1-21;
rpt. in Virgil's Aeneid: Interpretation and
Influence (Chapel Hill 1995), ch. 2, pp. 27-49
Week 12: Aeneid 10
Monday, November 20
Readings
- Aeneid 10.439-509
- S. J. Harrison, Vergil: Aeneid 10, with
Introduction, Translation, and Commentary, "Introduction 1: Literary
Aspects of Aeneid 10," pp. xxi-xxxiv
- M. M. Willcock, "Battle Scenes in the Aeneid,"
Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society 209
(1983), 87-99
- G. B. Conte, The Rhetoric of Imitation: Genre and Poetic
Memory in Virgil and Other Latin Poets (Ithaca 1986), ch. 6,
"The Baldric of Pallas: Cultural Models and Literary Rhetoric," pp.
185-95
Wednesday, November 22
Readings
- Aeneid 10.689-908
- Justin Glenn, "Mezentius and Polyphemus," American Journal
of Philology 92 (1971), 129-55
- H. C. Gotoff, "The Transformation of Mezentius,"
Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological
Association 114 (1984), 191-218
THANKSGIVING
Week 13: Aeneid 11
Monday, November 27
Readings
- Aeneid 11.648-895
- D. C. Feeney, The Gods in Epic (Oxford 1991), ch. 4,
"Vergil's Aeneid," pp. 129-87
Wednesday, November 29
MOO session with Denis Feeney
Week 14: Aeneid 12
Monday, December 2
Readings
Wednesday, December 4
Readings
- Michael C. J. Putnam, The Poetry of the Aeneid, ch.
4, "Tragic Victory" (Cambridge, Mass. 1965; rpt. Ithaca 1988), pp.
151-201, 225-28
- David West, "The Deaths of Hector and Turnus," Greece &
Rome 21 (1974) 21-31
- G. Karl Galinsky, "The Anger of Aeneas" American Journal of
Philology 109 (1988), 321-48
Week 15: Summary
Monday, December 11: Declamation
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