Juno's "Aeneid": a battle for heroic identity
"This book, based on the prestigious Martin Lectures, given annually at Oberlin College, offers a major new interpretation of Vergil's Aeneid. Scholars have tended to view Vergil's poem as an attempt to combine aspects of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey into a single epic. Joseph Farre...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "This book, based on the prestigious Martin Lectures, given annually at Oberlin College, offers a major new interpretation of Vergil's Aeneid. Scholars have tended to view Vergil's poem as an attempt to combine aspects of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey into a single epic. Joseph Farrell argues, by contrast, that Vergil's aim is not to combine them, but instead to stage a contest to decide which Homeric hero the Aeneid will most resemble. The goddess Juno works, in the poem, to make it another Iliad - a tragedy of death and destruction - against the narrator's apparent intention to make it another Odyssey - a comedy of homecoming and marriage. Farrell begins by illustrating his method of interpretation and its advantages over previous treatments of Vergil and Homer. He then turns to what he regards as the most fruitful of interpretative possibilities. Ancient ethical philosophy treated Homer's principal heroes, Achilles in the Iliad and Odysseus in the Odyssey, as key examples of heroic or "kingly" behaviour, but also stressed their fundamental differences from one another. Achilles is an intransigent, solipsistic man of violence, Odysseus one of intelligence, perspicacity, flexibility, and self-control. Many ancient thinkers contrast the heroes in these terms, with none imagining a stable combination of the two. Farrell argues that this supports his contention that Vergil does not aim to combine them, but to stage a Homeric contest for the soul of his hero and his poem. The final chapter considers the political relevance of this contest to Rome's leader, Caesar Augustus, who counted Aeneas as the mythical founder of his own family. An ultimately Iliadic or an Odyssean Aeneid would reflect in very different ways upon the ethical legitimacy of Augustus' regime" |
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| adam_text | CONTENTS Acknowledgments xi A Note to the Reader xv Introduction і Why Juno? і Form, Content, Context 4 Homer s Aeneid 7 The Systematic Intertext 8 The Dynamic Intertext 15 The Dialogic Intertext 21 The Ethical Aeneid 28 Ancient Perspectives 28 Modern Perspectives 29 Coming Attractions 33 1 Arms and a Man 41 Where to Begin? 41 Enter Juno 48 In Medias Res 52 Displaced Persons 57 Aeolus 59 Neptune 61 Aeneas 66 What Is at Stake ? 76 Horace on Iliadic and Odyssean Ethics 77 Horace on Ethical Citizenship 81 vii
viii CONTENTS Reflections on Juno s Aeneid in the Light of Horaces Homer 85 Intertextual Chronology 85 Enigmas ofArrival 90 Intertextual Africa 91 Phorcys’ Harbor on the Island of Ithaca 91 Deer Hunting on the Island of Aeaea 95 Disguise and Recognition on the Island of Ithaca 97 Intertextual Dido 107 Unintended Consequences 111 Going Forward 113 2 Third Ways 114 None of the Above? 114 Failure Is Always an Option: The Aeneid and the Epic Cycle u6 The Narrator’s Ambition 116 Juno and Memory 120 The Narrator’s Anxiety 123 Aeneas’ “Misfortunes” 128 Cyclic Ethics 133 A Second Argo: The Aeneid and Apollonius 133 Odyssey and Argosy 135 The Aeneid as Argosy 139 Juno’s Argonautic Diversion 143 Iliad and Argonautica 148 So Many Labors: The Aeneid as Heracleid 152 Grappling with Heracles 154 Difference and Essence 159 A Hesiodic Heracles 164 A Heraclean Aeneid 166 Weddings, Funerals, and Madness: Dramatic Plots in the Aeneid 167 Setting the Scene 169 The Tragedies of Dido and Aeneas 172 Heraclean Tragedy in the Aeneid χη6
CONTENTS ІХ Historical Intertexts in Roman Epics 178 History and Historiography 178 Homer and Historiography 180 Myth and History in Livius’ Odyssey 182 Myth and History in Naevius’ The Punic War 186 194 Some Conclusions 3 Reading Aeneas 196 A New Kind ofHero ? 196 Aeneas, a Heroic Reader 197 Books 1-4, Good Kings and Bad 198 “The Sack of Troy” 199 “Wanderings” 207 Aeneas and Dido 217 224 Books s֊8, Aeneas’ Heroic Education Sicily 226 Cumae 232 Latium 241 Pallanteum 248 Books 9-12, Becoming Achilles 253 A Leadership Vacuum 253 More Contested Identities 263 The Reader s Sympathies 272 Resolutions and Rewards 283 How to Read the Aeneid 287 Appendix: mene in- and ménin Works Cited 299 Index ofPassages Cited General Index 345 331 293
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CONTENTS Acknowledgments xi A Note to the Reader xv Introduction і Why Juno? і Form, Content, Context 4 Homer's Aeneid 7 The Systematic Intertext 8 The Dynamic Intertext 15 The Dialogic Intertext 21 The Ethical Aeneid 28 Ancient Perspectives 28 Modern Perspectives 29 Coming Attractions 33 1 Arms and a Man 41 Where to Begin? 41 Enter Juno 48 In Medias Res 52 Displaced Persons 57 Aeolus 59 Neptune 61 Aeneas 66 What Is at Stake ? 76 Horace on Iliadic and Odyssean Ethics 77 Horace on Ethical Citizenship 81 vii
viii CONTENTS Reflections on Juno s Aeneid in the Light of Horaces Homer 85 Intertextual Chronology 85 Enigmas ofArrival 90 Intertextual Africa 91 Phorcys’ Harbor on the Island of Ithaca 91 Deer Hunting on the Island of Aeaea 95 Disguise and Recognition on the Island of Ithaca 97 Intertextual Dido 107 Unintended Consequences 111 Going Forward 113 2 Third Ways 114 None of the Above? 114 Failure Is Always an Option: The Aeneid and the Epic Cycle u6 The Narrator’s Ambition 116 Juno and Memory 120 The Narrator’s Anxiety 123 Aeneas’ “Misfortunes” 128 Cyclic Ethics 133 A Second Argo: The Aeneid and Apollonius 133 Odyssey and Argosy 135 The Aeneid as Argosy 139 Juno’s Argonautic Diversion 143 Iliad and Argonautica 148 So Many Labors: The Aeneid as Heracleid 152 Grappling with Heracles 154 Difference and Essence 159 A Hesiodic Heracles 164 A Heraclean Aeneid 166 Weddings, Funerals, and Madness: Dramatic Plots in the Aeneid 167 Setting the Scene 169 The Tragedies of Dido and Aeneas 172 Heraclean Tragedy in the Aeneid χη6
CONTENTS ІХ Historical Intertexts in Roman Epics 178 History and Historiography 178 Homer and Historiography 180 Myth and History in Livius’ Odyssey 182 Myth and History in Naevius’ The Punic War 186 194 Some Conclusions 3 Reading Aeneas 196 A New Kind ofHero ? 196 Aeneas, a Heroic Reader 197 Books 1-4, Good Kings and Bad 198 “The Sack of Troy” 199 “Wanderings” 207 Aeneas and Dido 217 224 Books s֊8, Aeneas’ Heroic Education Sicily 226 Cumae 232 Latium 241 Pallanteum 248 Books 9-12, Becoming Achilles 253 A Leadership Vacuum 253 More Contested Identities 263 The Reader s Sympathies 272 Resolutions and Rewards 283 How to Read the Aeneid 287 Appendix: mene in- and ménin Works Cited 299 Index ofPassages Cited General Index 345 331 293 |
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