In this collection of twelve of his essays, distinguished Virgil
scholar Michael Putnam examines the "Aeneid" from several different
interpretive angles. He identifies the themes that permeate the
epic, provides detailed interpretations of its individual books,
and analyzes the poem's influence on later writers, including Ovid,
Lucan, Seneca, and Dante. In addition, a major essay on wrathful
Aeneas and the tactics of "Pietas" is published here for the first
time.
Putnam first surveys the intellectual development that shaped
Virgil's poetry. He then examines several of the poem's recurrent
dichotomies and metaphors, including idealism and realism, the line
and the circle, and piety and fury. In succeeding chapters, he
examines in detail the meaning of particular books of the "Aeneid"
and argues that a close reading of the end of the epic is crucial
for understanding the poem as a whole and Virgil's goals in
composing it.
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