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Death and the Optimistic Prophecy in Vergil's AENEID (Hardcover)
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Death and the Optimistic Prophecy in Vergil's AENEID (Hardcover)
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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Here James O'Hara shows how the deceptive nature of prophecy in the
Aeneid complicates assessment of the poem's attitude toward its
hero's achievement and toward the future of Rome under Augustus
Caesar. This close study of the language and rhetorical context of
the prophecies reveals that they regularly suppress discouraging
material: the gods send promising messages to Aeneas and others to
spur them on in their struggles, but these struggles often lead to
untimely deaths or other disasters only darkly hinted at by the
prophecies. O'Hara finds in these prophecies a persistent subtext
that both stresses the human cost of Aeneas' mission and casts
doubt on Jupiter's promise to Venus of an "endless empire" for the
Romans. O'Hara considers the major prophecies that look confidently
toward Augustus' Rome from the standpoint of Vergil's readers, who,
like the characters within the poem, must struggle with the
possibility that the optimism of the prophecies of Rome is undercut
by darker material partially suppressed. The study shows that
Vergil links the deception of his characters to the deceptiveness
of Roman oratory, politics, and religion, and to the artifice of
poetry itself. In response to recent debates about whether the
Aeneid is optimistic or pessimistic, O'Hara argues that Vergil
expresses both the Romans' hope for the peace of a Golden Age under
Augustus and their fear that this hope might be illusory.
Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the
latest print-on-demand technology to again make available
previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of
Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original
texts of these important books while presenting them in durable
paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy
Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage
found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University
Press since its founding in 1905.
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