University of Minnesota Ph.D. disssertation. Major:Classical and Near Eastern Studies. Advisor: Christopher Nappa. 1 computer file (PDF); v, 330 pages.This study takes an audience-oriented approach to the first four books of Vergil's Aeneid, attempting to consider interpretive issues in the text in terms of the mechanics of the reading process. My interest is in structures of suggestion and prompts to inference (the way that Vergil "says much in little, and often in silence," as Dryden put it), and in particular how Vergil's indirect methods of exposition invite the reader to construct character motivations that help them both to notice and to fill in "gaps" in the plot. Adapting concepts from Wolfgang Iser's The Act of Reading, I explore t...
Some introductory remarks on the subject-matter of the Aeneid, and on the immediate historical conte...
The focus of this paper is Jupiter’s first prophecy scene from the Aeneid. This passage has most oft...
When Aeneas encourages his men after the storm in Book One, Vergil says that his optimism is feigned...
Introduction The Aeneid is a text which elicits many questions from the reader. One of the fascinati...
The Servian commentary on Vergil's Aeneid has two primary authors: one, Servius himself; two, eviden...
textThis dissertation consists of nine chapters in which I explore the literary and philosophical b...
Many scholars believe that literary and artistic level of Book V of Vergil`s Aeneid is much lower th...
ABSTRACT: At the end of Aeneid 2, Creusa appears to Aeneas in the midst of burning Troy, predicting ...
Vergil’s Aeneid is a key text for the study of the Augustan regime’s justification of its unpreceden...
A particular instance of intertextuality that has received much critical attention is a line of the ...
This thesis uses philosophy of fiction to analyse episodic fictions in Vergil' s Aeneid. I argue tha...
I suppose that I ought to feel well-prepared to speak about the future of studies on the Aeneid, hav...
The word tandem (‘at last’) near the very beginning of Aeneid 6 carries its full meaning. Finally ...
As repeatedly reiterated, Aeneas’ destiny is to found Rome, yet he frequently ignores said mission, ...
Book 5 of Vergil’s Aeneid is known for the games commemorating the first anniversary of Anchises’ de...
Some introductory remarks on the subject-matter of the Aeneid, and on the immediate historical conte...
The focus of this paper is Jupiter’s first prophecy scene from the Aeneid. This passage has most oft...
When Aeneas encourages his men after the storm in Book One, Vergil says that his optimism is feigned...
Introduction The Aeneid is a text which elicits many questions from the reader. One of the fascinati...
The Servian commentary on Vergil's Aeneid has two primary authors: one, Servius himself; two, eviden...
textThis dissertation consists of nine chapters in which I explore the literary and philosophical b...
Many scholars believe that literary and artistic level of Book V of Vergil`s Aeneid is much lower th...
ABSTRACT: At the end of Aeneid 2, Creusa appears to Aeneas in the midst of burning Troy, predicting ...
Vergil’s Aeneid is a key text for the study of the Augustan regime’s justification of its unpreceden...
A particular instance of intertextuality that has received much critical attention is a line of the ...
This thesis uses philosophy of fiction to analyse episodic fictions in Vergil' s Aeneid. I argue tha...
I suppose that I ought to feel well-prepared to speak about the future of studies on the Aeneid, hav...
The word tandem (‘at last’) near the very beginning of Aeneid 6 carries its full meaning. Finally ...
As repeatedly reiterated, Aeneas’ destiny is to found Rome, yet he frequently ignores said mission, ...
Book 5 of Vergil’s Aeneid is known for the games commemorating the first anniversary of Anchises’ de...
Some introductory remarks on the subject-matter of the Aeneid, and on the immediate historical conte...
The focus of this paper is Jupiter’s first prophecy scene from the Aeneid. This passage has most oft...
When Aeneas encourages his men after the storm in Book One, Vergil says that his optimism is feigned...