Published by the State University of New York, Albany 1979

Dedicated to “Patribus Basilianis”

I. INTRODUCTION: The death of Pallas
II. SOME PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS
III. Augustus in the Aeneid
IV. The Proscriptions
V. Pietas
VI. The Devine Machinery

VII. THE POEM
Arma virumque
Conticuere omnes
Postquam res Asie
At regina gravi
Interea medium Aeneas
Sic fatur lacrimans
Tu quoque litoribus
Ut belli signum
Atque ea diversa
Panditur interea domus
Oceanum interea surgens
Turnus ut infraetos

VIII. SOME FURTHER CONSIDERATIONS
IX. HOMER’S POEMS
X. THE FAILURE OF AENEAS
XI. THE FAILURE OF VIRGIL
XII. THE UNDOING OF VIRGIL’S FAILURE

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