The living universe : : gods and men in Virgil's Aeneid /

The living universe : : gods and men in Virgil's Aeneid / / by Agathe Thornton.

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Bibliographic Details
Superior document:Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 46
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Thornton, Agathe.
Place / Publishing House:Lugduni Batavorum : : Brill,, 1976.
Year of Publication:1976
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Mnemosyne, Supplements 46.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiii, 223 pages)
Notes:
  • Also published Dunedin : University of Otago Press, 1976.
  • New Zealand author.
  • Includes indexes.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Homer, Virgil’s model, as the ‘educator’ of Greece and Rome
  • The Picture of the Universe of an educated Roman in the first century B.C.
  • The Cosmos as described by Anchises
  • The Spheres of the Cosmos and the Beings living in them
  • The Phases in the movement of the cosmos
  • First Phase
  • Second Phase (1.657-5.603)
  • Third Phase (5.604-7.285)
  • Fourth Phase (7.286-12.133, 215)
  • Fifth Phase: 12.134, 216-end
  • The plot of the Aeneid and the Gods in it
  • ira and furor
  • The Nisus and Euryalus Episode in the Aeneid (9.176ff)
  • Notes on pages XL-4
  • General Index.

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