Further Voices in Vergil's Aeneid
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Clarendon Paperbacks
ISBN-10
0198140924
ISBN-13
9780198140924
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Imprint
Clarendon Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 12th, 1992
Print length
262 Pages
Weight
360 grams
Dimensions
21.90 x 14.20 x 1.70 cms
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An analysis of Vergil's epic poem, which explores the secondary narrators whose voices can be heard throughout the work. The author examines Vergil's method of using such further voices to comment upon, question or occasionally subvert the epic's main narrator.
The Aeneid can strike one as a relatively conventional epic. It may seem an objective heroic tale of Rome''s beginnings, unshocking in tone and substance, indeed (and more particularly) patriotic and inspiring. Vergil designed it so that it might read in this way. This is one `voice` that he wished us to hear. We may call it the epic voice. But there are `further voices`. Imagery and other stylistic devices are exploited to insinuate ramifying meanings and messages for those prepared to listen, and these may be disturbing, even shocking, as they add to, comment upon, question and occasionally subvert the implications of the epic voice. This book examines and illustrates Vergil''s method of intruding such further voices. In doing so it illuminates with unusual clarity the manner and content of Vergil''s communications; it is as if one is taken inside Vergil''s workshop, indeed inside his mind.
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