TY - BOOK ID - 118395452 TI - Fate and the hero in Virgil's Aeneid : Stoic world fate and human responsibility PY - 2023 SN - 1009319825 100931985X 1009319876 PB - Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Stoics in literature. KW - Fate and fatalism in literature. KW - Responsibility in literature. KW - Responsibility as a theme in literature KW - Virgil. KW - Virgil KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - Vergilius Maro, P. KW - Vergilius Maro, Publius KW - Vergilius KW - Vergil KW - Virgile KW - Virgilius Maro, Publius KW - Marone, Publio Virgilio KW - Virgilio Máron, Publio KW - Vergili Maronis, Publius KW - Virgilio Marone, P. KW - Vergilīĭ KW - Vergílio KW - Wergiliusz KW - Vergilīĭ Maron, P. KW - Vergilīĭ Maron, Publīĭ KW - Verhiliĭ Maron, P. KW - Virgilio KW - Virgilīĭ, KW - Virgilius Maro, P. KW - Virgil Maro, P. KW - ווירגיל, KW - וירגיליוס, KW - ורגיליוס, KW - מרו, פובליוס ורגיליוס, KW - فرجيل, KW - Pseudo-Virgil KW - Pseudo Virgilio KW - Virgilio Marón, Publio KW - Bhārjila UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:118395452 AB - This book explores how Virgil in his Aeneid incorporates the ancient Stoics' thinking about how humans can exercise moral responsibility and how this can affect providential world fate. The third-century BC philosopher Chrysippus of Soli located this freedom in the way we can assent to courses of action, and Graham Zanker innovatively demonstrates how Virgil appropriates this concept in the way that Jupiter and Aeneas can assent to the world fate in which they have discovered they must play a part, or Juno and Dido can withhold their assent to it. Indeed, Virgil even offers the model to no-one less than Augustus: the emperor is invited to give his assent to ruling what was believed to be his 'world-wide' empire justly. The book is accessible to both students and professional scholars of the Aeneid, with all Greek and Latin translated into idiomatic English. ER -