Joseph Farrell & Michael C. J. Putnam 
A Companion to Vergil’s Aeneid and its Tradition 

A Companion to Vergil’s Aeneid and its
Tradition presents a collection of original interpretive essays
that represent an innovative addition to the body of Vergil
scholarship.

* Provides fresh approaches to traditional Vergil scholarship and
new insights into unfamiliar aspects of Vergil’s textual
history

* Features contributions by an international team of the most
distinguished scholars

* Represents a distinctively original approach to Vergil
scholarship

Innehållsförteckning

Illustrations viii

Notes on Contributors x

Preface xv

Acknowledgments xvi

Note on References xvii

Introduction 1

Joseph Farrell and Michael C.J. Putnam

PART I The Aeneid in Antiquity 11

1 Vergil’s Library 13

Damien P. Nelis

2 On First Looking into Vergil’s Homer 26

Ralph Hexter

3 The Development of the Aeneas Legend 37

Sergio Casali

4 Aeneas’ Sacral Authority 52

Vassiliki Panoussi

5 Vergil’s Roman 66

J.D. Reed

6 Vergil, Ovid, and the Poetry of Exile 80

Michael C.J. Putnam

7 The Unfinished Aeneid? 96

James J. O’Hara

8 The Life of Vergil before Donatus 107

Fabio Stok

PART II Medieval and Renaissance Receptions 121

9 Vergil and St. Augustine 123

Garry Wills

10 Felix Casus: The Dares and Dictys Legends of Aeneas 133

Sarah Spence

11 Vergil in Dante 147

Rachel Jacoff

12 Marvelous Vergil in the Ferrarese Renaissance 158

Dennis Looney

13 Spenser’s Vergil: The Faerie Queene and the Aeneid 173

Philip Hardie

14 The Aeneid in the Age of Milton 186

Henry Power

15 Practicing What They Preach? Vergil and the Jesuits 203

Yasmin Haskell

16 The Aeneid from the Aztecs to the Dark Virgin: Vergil, Native
Tradition, and Latin Poetry in Colonial Mexico from Sahagún’s
Memoriales (1563) to Villerías’ Guadalupe (1724) 217

Andrew Laird

17 Vergil and Printed Books, 1500-1800 234

Craig Kallendorf

PART III The Aeneid in Music and the Visual Arts 251

18 Vergil and the Pamphili Family in Piazza Navona, Rome
253

Ingrid Rowland

19 Visual and Verbal Translation of Myth: Neptune in Vergil,
Rubens, and Dryden 270

Reuben A. Brower

20 The AEneas of Vergil: A Dramatic Performance Presented in the
Original Latin by John Ogilby 290

Kristi Eastin

21 Empire and Exile: Vergil in Romantic Art 311

David Blayney Brown

22 Laocoons 325

Glenn W. Most

23 Vergil in Music 341

William Fitzgerald

PART IV The American Aeneid 353

24 Vergil and the Early American Republic 355

Carl J. Richard

25 Why Did American Women Read the Aeneid? 366

Caroline Winterer

26 Vergil in the Black American Experience 376

Michele Valerie Ronnick

27 Vergil and Founding Violence 391

Michèle Lowrie

28 Figuring the Founder: Vergil and the Challenge of Autocracy
404

Joy Connolly

PART V Modern Reactions to the Aeneid 419

29 Classic Vergil 421

Kenneth Haynes

30 Vergil’s Detractors 435

Joseph Farrell

31 Mind the Gap: On Foreignizing Translations of the Aeneid
449

Susanna Morton Braund

32 Vergil’s Aeneid and Contemporary Poetry 465

Karl Kirchwey

Bibliography 482

Index 531

Om författaren

Joseph Farrell is Professor of Classical Studies at the
University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of several books and
papers on Latin literature, including Vergil’s Georgics
and the Traditions of Ancient Epic (1991), Latin Language
and Latin Culture from Ancient to Modern Times (2001), and the
forthcoming Juno’s Aeneid: Narrative, Metapoetics,
Dissent.

Michael C. J. Putnam is Mac Millan Professor of Classics
and Professor of Comparative Literature, Emeritus, at Brown
University. His works include Maffeo Vegio: Short Epics
(2004), Poetic Interplay: Catullus and Horace (2006), and
The Virgilian Tradition: The First Fifteen Hundred Years
(with Jan Ziolkowski, 2008)