Fate and the Hero in Virgil's Aeneid
Fate and the Hero in Virgil's Aeneid
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Summary
Explores how Virgil's incorporation of Stoic thought on human responsibility and providential world fate into the Aeneid permits a reassessment of the characterisation and morality of the poem's gods and heroes. Of interest to both students and professional scholars.
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Fate and the Hero in Virgil's Aeneid by Graham Zanker
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.
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).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781009319874 |
| ISBN 10 | 1009319876 |
| Title | Fate and the Hero in Virgil's Aeneid |
| Author | Graham Zanker |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2023-04-13 |
| Number of pages | 300 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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