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Die Aeneis Vergils (70–19 v. Chr.), ein Epos in 12 Büchern, gehört zu den bedeutendsten Dichtungen der Weltliteratur. Sie erzählt die Geschichte des Trojaners Aeneas, der nach der Zerstörung seiner Stadt durch die Griechen auf Weisung der Götter in die Gegend des heutigen Rom übersiedelt und dort die Voraussetzungen für die Gründung der Stadt schafft. Er gelangt erst nach einer längeren Irrfahrt an sein Ziel und muss dann in einem Krieg gegen die im Lande wohnenden Latiner seinen Herrschaftsanspruch behaupten. In der Person des Aeneas ist diejenige des Kaisers Augustus präfiguriert. Bis in neuere Zeit wurde die Aeneis metrisch, also in deutsche Hexameter übertragen. Da man sich dabei aber der klassizistischen Sprache früherer Zeiten bediente, wurde die Übersetzung für ein modernes Publikum stellenweise nahezu unverständlich. Die vorliegende Übersetzung ist ebenfalls metrisch, steht aber sprachlich nicht mehr in klassizistischer Tradition, sondern gibt den lateinischen Text im Deutsch der Gegenwart wieder, sodass ein Eindruck von der poetischen Gestalt des Originals erhalten bleibt. Vergil’s Aeneid is one of the greatest works of world literature. Published around 18 BCE, this epic poem narrates the mythical antecedents of the foundation of Rome. The translation is in verses – in hexameter as the original version – but, leaving behind the classicistic tradition, uses contemporary German to render the Latin text.

Legends --- Aeneis. --- Epos. --- Vergil. --- Versübersetzung. --- Virgil, Aeneid, epic poetry. --- Virgil.

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Love and tragedy dominate book four of Virgil's most powerful work, building on the violent emotions invoked b the storms, battles, warring gods, and monster-plagued wanderings of the epic's opening. Destined to be the founder of Roman culture, Aeneas, nudged by the gods, decides to leave his beloved Dido, Queen of Carthage, causing her suicide in pursuit of his historical destiny. A dark plot, in which erotic passion culminates in sex, and sex leads to tragedy and death in the human realm, unfolds within the larger horizon of a supernatural sphere, dominated by power-conscious divinities. Dido is Aeneas' most significant other, and in their encounter Virgil explores timeless themes of love and loyalty, fare and fortune, the justice of the gods, imperialambition and its victims, and ethnic differences. This course book offers a portion of the original Latin text, study questions, a commentary, and interpretative essays. Designed to stretch and stimulate readers, Ingo Gildenhard's incisive commentary will be of particular interest to students of Latin at both A2 and undergraduate level, it extends beyond detailed linguistic analysis to encourage critical engagement with Virgil's poetry and discussion of the most recent scholarly thought.

Classics --- Literature (General) --- Énéide --- littérature --- latin --- Aeneid --- Latin text --- literary criticism --- translation --- classics --- classics textbook series --- ancient rome --- sixth-form study guide --- aeneid --- virgil --- Aeneas --- Carthage --- Jupiter --- Venus

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Epic poetry, Latin --- Virgil. --- Virgil --- Criticism and interpretation --- Virgil. - Aeneid. - Liber 1-2 --- Virgil - Criticism and interpretation

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In the first part of this volume on the literary technique of imitation, the author analyses Virgil's working over the text of Homer which paradoxically represents a true act of artistic originality. In the second chapter, the author reconstructs the presuppositions of a method and explores at the same time its limitations.

Classical literature --- Imitation in literature. --- Latin poetry --- History and criticism. --- Quotation --- Literary style --- Mimesis in literature --- Originality in literature --- Plagiarism --- Classics --- Aeneas --- Aeneid --- Homer --- Intertextuality --- Philology --- Structuralism --- Virgil

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"Born in 70 BCE, the Roman poet Vergil came of age during a period of literary experimentalism among Latin authors. These authors introduced new Greek verse forms and meters into the existing repertoire of Latin poetic genres and measures, foremost among them being elegy, a genre that the ancients thought originated in funeral lament, but which in classical Rome became first-person poetry about the poet-lover’s amatory vicissitudes. Despite the influence of notable elegists on Vergil’s early poetry, his critics have rarely paid attention to his engagement with the genre across his body of work. This collection is devoted to an exploration of Vergil’s multifaceted relations with elegy. Contributors shed light on Vergil’s interactions with the genre and its practitioners across classical, medieval, and early modern periods. The book investigates Vergil’s hexameter poetry in relation to contemporary Latin elegy by Gallus, Tibullus, and Propertius, and the subsequent reception of Vergil’s radical combination of epic with elegy by later Latin and Italian authors. Filling a striking gap in the scholarship, Vergil and Elegy illuminates the famous poet’s wide-ranging engagement with the genre of elegy across his oeuvre."--

Elegiac poetry, Latin --- History and criticism. --- Virgil. --- Virgil --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Aeneid. --- Ariosto. --- Gallus. --- Greek poetry. --- Latin poetry. --- Lucan. --- Ovid. --- Pontano. --- Propertius. --- Statius. --- Tibullus. --- Vergil. --- ancient Italian poetry. --- classical literature. --- classical reception. --- death. --- elegist. --- elegy. --- epic. --- love. --- History and criticism