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"In Ilias Latina : Text, Interpretation, and Reception, the contributors approach this short poem, whose appeal and importance have not been sufficiently appreciated, from a multitude of scholarly perspectives. The challenging synthesis of the different issues shows that both a new edition and a modern literary interpretation of the poem are needed. Particularly focusing in various ways on the technique of vertere, the papers concern four main issues: the different elements of the narration, such as macro- and microstructure, single Bauformen and motifs, characters and scenes; the intertextual allusions to Homer and the texts of the Roman poetic tradition; the literary genre, the explicitly metaliterary passages and the implicit narrative and poetic choices; the medieval reception of the Ilias Latina"

Dream interpretation --- Analysis, Dream --- Dream analysis --- Dreams --- Interpretation, Dream --- Interpretation --- Epic poetry, Latin. --- Homer --- Homer. --- Ilias Latina --- Homer. - Ilias Latina

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Marjorie Curry Woods takes readers into the medieval classroom, where boys identified with Dido, where teachers turned an unfinished classical poem into a bildungsroman about young Achilles and where students not only studied but performed classical works. Woods opens the classroom door by examining teachers' notes and marginal commentary in manuscripts of the Aeneid and two short verse narratives: the Achilleid of Statius and the Ilias latina, a Latin epitome of Homer's Iliad. She focuses on interlinear glosses - individual words and short phrases written above lines of text that elucidate grammar, syntax, and vocabulary, but that also indicate how students engaged with the feelings and motivations of characters. Interlinear and marginal glosses, which were the foundation of the medieval classroom study of classical literature, reveal that in learning the Aeneid, boys studied and empathized with the feelings of female characters; that the unfinished Achilleid was restructured into a complete narrative showing young Achilles mirroring his mentors, including his mother Thetis; and that the Ilias latina offered boys a condensed version of the Iliad focusing on the deaths of young men. Manuscript evidence even indicates how specific passages could be performed. The result is a groundbreaking study that provides a surprising new picture of medieval education and writes a new chapter in the reception history of classical literature.

Education, Medieval --- Education, Medieval. --- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.). --- Klassiker. --- Latin literature --- Latin literature --- Learning and scholarship --- Learning and scholarship --- Lektüre. --- Mittelalter. --- Study and teaching --- History --- Study and teaching. --- History --- Medieval. --- Virgil --- Virgil. --- Virgil. --- Statius, P. Papinius --- Influence. --- Achilleis (Statius, P. Papinius). --- Aeneis (Virgil). --- Ilias Latina. --- Ilias Latina. --- To 1500. --- Europe.