In Aeneid’s book IV, Virgil makes use of elegiac topics while narrating Dido and Aeneas’ ill-fated love, inserting these topics into the epic genre. Some key characteristics of elegiac lover, such as the furor by which he is taken when injured by Cupid’s dart; lover’s idleness; the mala fama that emerges from the love affair; and, lastly, the misera condition in which the lover is thrown to, always followed by a lament; all these has shown to be present in Aeneid’s book IV. So, in addition to evincing how epic genre, without losing its formal rigour, subsume other genres, in this case the elegiac one, this article observes how this procedure takes part in both Vergil’s intra-narrative and extra-narrative purpose when composing Aeneid. In th...
Love and tragedy dominate book four of Virgil's most powerful work, building on the violent emotions...
This paper aims to demonstrate how Ovid, through the poetic persona of the amator, brings to the ele...
Introduction The Aeneid is a text which elicits many questions from the reader. One of the fascinati...
<p><span>In <em>Aeneid</em>’s book IV, Virgil makes use of elegiac topics while narrating Dido and A...
A millenary tradition of commentators of the Aeneid has demonstrated that Book IV contains elements ...
As the second half of the Aeneid gets under way, Vergil offers a proemial invocation designed to int...
As the second half of the Aeneid gets under way, Vergil offers a proemial invocation designed to int...
This essay intends to stablish the myth of Aeneas as the reason of some dificulty that the elegiacs ...
This essay intends to stablish the myth of Aeneas as the reason of some dificulty that the elegiacs ...
The Aeneid is much more than the story of the founding of Rome. Virgil has depicted a canvas which ...
RODRIGUES, Natália Vasconcelos. A representação de Dido e o discurso feminino na épica e na elegia. ...
The incipit of Book IV of the Aeneid describes the genesis of queen Dido‘s love for the Trojan hero ...
Some introductory remarks on the subject-matter of the Aeneid, and on the immediate historical conte...
This dissertation investigates references to five mythological characters (Penelope, Laodamia, Andro...
Love and tragedy dominate book four of Virgil’s most powerful work, building on the violent emotions...
Love and tragedy dominate book four of Virgil's most powerful work, building on the violent emotions...
This paper aims to demonstrate how Ovid, through the poetic persona of the amator, brings to the ele...
Introduction The Aeneid is a text which elicits many questions from the reader. One of the fascinati...
<p><span>In <em>Aeneid</em>’s book IV, Virgil makes use of elegiac topics while narrating Dido and A...
A millenary tradition of commentators of the Aeneid has demonstrated that Book IV contains elements ...
As the second half of the Aeneid gets under way, Vergil offers a proemial invocation designed to int...
As the second half of the Aeneid gets under way, Vergil offers a proemial invocation designed to int...
This essay intends to stablish the myth of Aeneas as the reason of some dificulty that the elegiacs ...
This essay intends to stablish the myth of Aeneas as the reason of some dificulty that the elegiacs ...
The Aeneid is much more than the story of the founding of Rome. Virgil has depicted a canvas which ...
RODRIGUES, Natália Vasconcelos. A representação de Dido e o discurso feminino na épica e na elegia. ...
The incipit of Book IV of the Aeneid describes the genesis of queen Dido‘s love for the Trojan hero ...
Some introductory remarks on the subject-matter of the Aeneid, and on the immediate historical conte...
This dissertation investigates references to five mythological characters (Penelope, Laodamia, Andro...
Love and tragedy dominate book four of Virgil’s most powerful work, building on the violent emotions...
Love and tragedy dominate book four of Virgil's most powerful work, building on the violent emotions...
This paper aims to demonstrate how Ovid, through the poetic persona of the amator, brings to the ele...
Introduction The Aeneid is a text which elicits many questions from the reader. One of the fascinati...