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Understanding 9/11Book digitized by Google from the library of Harvard University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
vii, 259 pages ; 20 cm
This is the first major single-volume edition in English of Book IX of Virgil's Aeneid, a pivotal part of the poem that contains the nocturnal interlude of the ill-fated expedition of the young Trojans Nisus and Euryalus. The volume includes a detailed linguistic and thematic commentary on the text, and an introduction consisting of a series of interpretative essays on the book. It offers invaluable help to students of Virgil and will also be of interest to professional scholars of Latin literature. -- Amazon.com
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-254) and index
Machine derived contents note: Introduction -- 1. The place of book IX in the second half of the Aeneid -- 2. The structure of book IX -- 3. Links with other books -- 4. Reworking Homer -- 5. Cities and sieges -- solidarity and division -- 6. Young men at war -- defining the epic hero -- Trojans and Italians -- 7. Turnus -- 8. Homeric gods and Roman religion -- knowledge human and divine -- recognition -- 9. The Nisus and Euryalus episode -- P. Vergili Maronis Aeneidos Liber IX -- Commentary -- Indexes
vii, 259 pages ; 20 cm
This is the first major single-volume edition in English of Book IX of Virgil's Aeneid, a pivotal part of the poem that contains the nocturnal interlude of the ill-fated expedition of the young Trojans Nisus and Euryalus. The volume includes a detailed linguistic and thematic commentary on the text, and an introduction consisting of a series of interpretative essays on the book. It offers invaluable help to students of Virgil and will also be of interest to professional scholars of Latin literature. -- Amazon.com
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-254) and index
Machine derived contents note: Introduction -- 1. The place of book IX in the second half of the Aeneid -- 2. The structure of book IX -- 3. Links with other books -- 4. Reworking Homer -- 5. Cities and sieges -- solidarity and division -- 6. Young men at war -- defining the epic hero -- Trojans and Italians -- 7. Turnus -- 8. Homeric gods and Roman religion -- knowledge human and divine -- recognition -- 9. The Nisus and Euryalus episode -- P. Vergili Maronis Aeneidos Liber IX -- Commentary -- Indexes
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