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In recent decades, international research on Virgil has been
marked, if not dominated, by the ideas of the 'Harvard school' and
similar trends, according to which the poet was engaged in an
elaborate work of subtle subversion, directed against the new ruler
of the Roman world, Octavian-Augustus. Much of Virgil's oeuvre
consists prima facie of eulogy of the ruler, and of emphatic
prediction of his enduring success: this is explained by numerous
modern critics as generic convention, or as studied ambiguity, or
as irony.This paradoxical position, which runs against ancient - as
well as much modern - interpretation of the poet, continues to
create widespread unease. Stahl's new monograph is the most
thorough study so far to question modern Virgilian criticism on
philological grounds. He bases himself on the internal logic and
rhetoric of the Aeneid, and considers also political, historical,
archaeological and philosophical subjects addressed by the poem. He
finds that the poet has so presented the morality of his central
figure, Augustus' supposed ancestor Aeneas, and of those who
(eventually) clash with him, Turnus and Dido, as to make it certain
that Roman readers and hearers of the poem were meant to conclude
in Aeneas' favour. Virgil's intention emerges from Stahl's
thorough, ingenious and original argumentation as decisively
pro-Augustan. Stahl's work, in short, will not only enliven debate
on current critical hypotheses but for many will enduringly affect
their credibility.
This title features a collection of 14 papers in which contributors
use diverging critical methods on a selection of extracts from
Vergil's epic, with the examination of political references in the
work being prominent, as well as the question of the Aeneid's
central meaning. Contents include: Vergil announcing the Aeneid. On
Geo. 3.1-48 (Egil Kraggerud); The Peopling of the Underworld (Anton
Powell); Vergil as a Republican (Eckard Lefevre); The Sword-Belt of
Pallas: Moral Symbolism and Political Ideology (Stephen Harrison);
The Isolation of Turnus (Richard F. Thomas) and The End and the
Meaning (David West).
Stahl's classic book on Thucydides is one of the most profound and
widely respected modern studies of the Athenian historian.
Published in German in 1966 as Thukydides: Die Stellung des
Menschen im geschichtlichen Prozess, it has, until now, not been
available in English. For this new edition, the original has been
revised and enlarged by two chapters which reflect the author's
subsequent work. Stahl's achievement is, first, to free Thucydides
from the nationalist limits which modern interpreters imposed, then
to demonstrate the technique whereby Thucydides constructs his work
as an interplay, using narrative to comment on the speeches of
politicians, to confirm or, more often, to refute his speakers'
analysis. The author is Mellon Professor of Classics at the
University of Pittsburgh.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1985.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1985.
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