 |
|
Approaches to Teaching Vergil's Aeneid
Editor(s): William S. Anderson, Lorina N. Quartarone
Pages: xiii & 255 pp.
Published: 2002
ISBN: 9780873527729
"This stimulating and wide-ranging collection of essays is addressed primarily to instructors, some of whom may be non-classically trained, who will be teaching the Aeneid in translation at the undergraduate level, though it [is] valuable to all teachers of the Aeneid at whatever level, whether in Latin or English translation."
Bryn Mawr Classical Review
The casebound edition of this title is out of print.
Vergil's Aeneid has been the most continually read and discussed work by a Roman author in the history of Western literature. Yet it can be a challenging work to teach--Vergil is a complex, subtle poet; his culture and time are removed from us; and Latin is less studied in college than it was a generation ago.
Part 1 of this volume, "Materials," critiques the main English translations, lists reference works and resources (including those on the Internet), and gives an overview of criticism. Part 2, "Approaches," strikes a balance between traditional and new approaches to the text. Among the subjects of these essays are Augustan politics, Homeric parallels, key terms (pietas, furor), narrative techniques, uses of simile, images of women, the treatment of warfare, and comparisons of the Aeneid with such works as Dante's Divine Comedy and Milton's Paradise Lost.
Table of Contents
Approaches to Teaching Vergil's Aeneid
Part 1: MATERIALS
Lorina N. Quartarone
- Texts
- Latin Editions and Commentaries
- English Translations
- History of the Text
- The Instructor's Library
- Reference Works
- Background Studies
- Critical Studies
- Periodicals
- Twentieth-Century Critical Perspectives
Daniel M. Hooley
- Internet Resources
- Audiovisual Materials
Part 2: APPROACHES
- Introduction
William S. Anderson and Lorina N. Quartarone
- Preliminary Considerations
- Pietas and Furor: Motivational Forces in the Aeneid
- Trojan, Dardanian, Roman: The Power of Epithets in the Aeneid
- Aeneas and Heroism
- "Frigid Indifference" or "Soaked Through and Through with Feeling"? Portrayal of Character in the Aeneid
- The Public and Private Aeneas: Observations on Complex Responsibility
- "Tum Pectore Sensus Vertuntur Varii": Reading and Teaching the End of the Aeneid
- Homeric Intertextuality
- Vergil's Aeneas: The Best of the Romans
- Homer, Pietas, and the Cycle of Duels in Aeneid 10 and 12
- History and Material Culture
- Vergil's Aeneid and the Evolution of Augustus
- The Anger of Juno in Vergil's Aeneid
- Vergil and the Monuments
- Gender Issues
- Future Perfect Feminine: Women Past and Present in Vergil's Aeneid
- Pietas, Furor, and Ecofeminism in the Aeneid
- Feminae Furentes: The Frenzy of Noble Women in Vergil's Aeneid and the Letter of Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi
- Classroom Techniques and Strategies
- Appreciating the Poetry of the Aeneid
Scott Ward and Gary S. Meltzer
- Look Who's Talking: A Narratological Approach
- Integrating the Aeneid into Larger Academic Contexts
- Tragedy and Vergil's Aeneid
- Dante's Vergil
- Teaching the Aeneid with Milton's Paradise Lost
- Appendixes
- Homeric Parallels
- Cultural, Historical, and Literary Terminology
- Works Cited
- Index
|
|
|
|
|
|
