Homeric Effects In Vergil"s Narrative (ebook)

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The study of Homeric imitations in Vergil has one of the longest traditions in Western culture, starting from the very moment the Aeneid was circulated. Homeric Effects in Vergil’s Narrative is the first English translation of one of the most important and influential modern studies in this tradition. In this revised and expanded edition, Alessandro Barchiesi advances innovative approaches even as he recuperates significant earlier interpretations, from Servius to G. N. Knauer.

Approaching Homeric allusions in the Aeneid as "narrative effects" rather than glimpses of the creative mind of the author at work, Homeric Effects in Vergil’s Narrative demonstrates how these allusions generate hesitations and questions, as well as insights and guidance, and how they participate in the creation of narrative meaning. The book also examines how layers of competing interpretations in Homer are relevant to the Aeneid, revealing again the richness of the Homeric tradition as a component of meaning in the Aeneid. Finally, Homeric Effects in Vergil’s Narrative goes beyond previous studies of the Aeneid by distinguishing between two forms of Homeric intertextuality: reusing a text as an individual model or as a generic matrix.

For this edition, a new chapter has been added, and in a new afterword the author puts the book in the context of changes in the study of Latin literature and intertextuality.

A masterful work of classical scholarship, Homeric Effects in Vergil’s Narrative also has valuable insights for the wider study of imitation, allusion, intertextuality, epic, and literary theory.

"This first English translation of Alessandro Barchiesi’s trail-blazing 1984 study is much more than a revised edition. . . . Barchiesi adds yet more layers, marking this renewed book as a key contribution to classical scholarship now."--Victoria Rimell, Times Literary Supplement0FOREWORD by Philip Hardie vii
INTRODUCTORY NOTE xv
1 The Death of Pallas Intertextuality and Transformation of the Epic Model 1
2 The Structure of Aeneid 10 35
3 The Arms in the Sky Diffraction of a Narrative Theme 53
4 The Death of Turnus Genre Model and Example Model 69
APPENDIX The Lament of Juturna 95
AFTERWORD by Alessandro Barchiesi 115
NOTES 135
WORKS CITED 175
SELECT INDEX 185
SELECT INDEX LOCORUM 188
INDEX OF MODERN AUTHORS 190