Epic and Empire: Politics and Generic Form from Virgil to MiltonPrinceton University Press, 12. 1. 2021 - 444 strán (strany) Alexander the Great, according to Plutarch, carried on his campaigns a copy of the Iliad, kept alongside a dagger; on a more pronounced ideological level, ancient Romans looked to the Aeneid as an argument for imperialism. In this major reinterpretation of epic poetry beginning with Virgil, David Quint explores the political context and meanings of key works in Western literature. He divides the history of the genre into two political traditions: the Virgilian epics of conquest and empire that take the victors' side (the Aeneid itself, Camoes's Lusíadas, Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata) and the countervailing epic of the defeated and of republican liberty (Lucan's Pharsalia, Ercilla's Araucana, and d'Aubigné's Les tragiques). These traditions produce opposing ideas of historical narrative: a linear, teleological narrative that belongs to the imperial conquerors, and an episodic and open-ended narrative identified with "romance," the story told of and by the defeated. |
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... king Priam in the epic's final book . But the individual heroism of Achilles could later be appropriated by and made to stand for the greatest concentration of power that Greece had seen . Plutarch reports in his Life of Alexander that ...
... king he had conquered and then made the fatal mistake of citing verses from Euripides ' Andromache , where Peleus , the father of Achilles , holds Menelaus and Agamemnon responsible for his son's death at Troy and complains , Do those ...
... king and chieftain , Agamemnon , over the division of spoils . The historical king Alexander , nonetheless , chose to identify with the hero Achilles , and silenced Cleitus who reversed the analogy . Here , again , it was the Aeneid ...
... king and imperial conquest , and while their looser formal organization also argues for a libertas that connotes less centralized political arrangements , their own ideological contradictions nonetheless keep them from breaking free of ...
... kings barbaric pearl and gold ” ( 2.3–4 ) . ? Barbaric riches ( " ope barbarica " ) from the East fill up Antony's war chest . The wealth at the basis of Eastern power -- the gold upon which Dido's Carthage is founded ( Aeneid 1.357-60 ) ...
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Repetition and Ideology in the Aeneid | 50 |
THREE | 99 |
Ercilla and dAubigné | 131 |
FIVE | 213 |
Miltons Politics and Paradise Regained | 325 |
NINE | 343 |
NOTES TO THE CHAPTERS | 369 |
INDEX | 427 |