In laying out the plot of the Aeneid there were certain features to which Virgil was committed.
They were connected with plot, treatment, and theme. As to plot: the outlines of Aeneas' …

In this paper I want to challenge a view of the Aeneid which I believe to be widespread, and
indeed to have had the support of distinguished scholars. I could summarize it like this: The …

This prophecy, uttered under impressive and presumably memorable circumstances, seems
through Book 3 to be wholly forgotten or ignored. Aeneas drifts hither and yon at the bidding …

'In the last lines of the poem he [Aeneas] killed Turnus, after relenting, just for revenge, in
memory of Pallas, whom Turnus had killed, and because he saw the belt of Pallas, which …

By comparison with the acclaim they have lavished on its neighbors, critics have devoted
minimal attention to the Aeneid's third book. Though a continuation of Aeneas' narrative to …

Recent writers on the Aeneid have made us more than ever aware of the complexity of the
poem. Virgil's sources are numerous and belong to more than one category. Homeric epic …

THE READERS for whom the Aeneid was written had a very good idea of the main events of
the story before they began Vergil's version of it. Now, if you are making a plot out of …

THE centre of the Aeneid lies in 7. 25-285. We are there told how the Latins have been
supematurally warned to expect the coming of a man of destiny, and also how the Trojans …

In the Aeneid there is a tendency to dissociate action from emotion. Action is often dictated
by a strong sense of duty, while emotion, instead of being a motivating power, becomes an …

The Aeneid begins with a prologue in which Vergil introduces the main themes of the work,
asks for divine assistance, and eases the reader into the action of Book 1, but there is no …