Fate and the Hero in Virgil's Aeneid

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-1-009-31987-4
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 300 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 540 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zanker, Graham

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface; Introduction; 1. Stoic world fate and Virgil's Aeneid; 2. Fate and the human responsibility of dido and Aeneas in Aeneid 4: a case study; 3. Stoic world fate and the gods of the Aeneid; 4. Stoic world fate and the humans of the Aeneid; 5. Stoic world fate and roman imperium in the Aeneid; Tragedy and didacticism; Bibliography.

Über Autor(innen)

Zanker, Graham
GRAHAM ZANKER is Professor Emeritus in the Classics Department at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand and Affiliate Professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Adelaide. His publications include Realism in Alexandrian Poetry: A Literature and Its Audience (1987), The Heart of Achilles: Characterization and Personal Ethics in the Iliad (1994), Modes of Viewing in Hellenistic Poetry and Art (2004) and Herodas: Mimiambs (2009).