Virgil: Aeneid Book IX

The first major single-volume edition in English of the pivotal book in Virgil's Aeneid , featuring the expedition of Nisus and Euryalus.

Virgil (Author), Philip Hardie (Edited by)

9780521359528, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 10 November 1994

268 pages
18.5 x 12.5 x 2 cm, 0.295 kg

"Hardie successfully incorporates the most valuable ancient and contemporary materials on Vergil to produce a more literary approach reflecting the insights and biases of critical work of recent decades. This edition will br appreciated by students and scholars alike." Classical World

Aeneid IX marks the beginning of the full-scale narrative of the war between the Trojans and Turnus' Italians which occupies the last quarter of the epic. Two days during which Turnus launches a siege-assault on the Trojan camp while Aeneas is absent are separated by the nocturnal interlude of the ill-fated expedition of the romantic young Trojans Nisus and Euryalus. In this, the first major single-volume commentary in English on the book, Dr Hardie explores Virgil's transformation of Homeric models of battle narrative in the service of contemporary Roman ideology. 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.

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.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval [DSBB]