TY - BOOK AU - Farrell,Joseph TI - Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity T2 - Martin Classical Lectures SN - 9780691211176 AV - PA6825 U1 - 873/.01 23 PY - 2021///] CY - Princeton, NJ : PB - Princeton University Press, KW - Epic poetry, Latin KW - History and criticism KW - Homer-Influence KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical KW - bisacsh KW - Agamemnon KW - Apollonius KW - Callimachus KW - Greek art KW - Greek heroes KW - Greek literature KW - Homeric Greek KW - Ilium KW - Latin literature KW - Penelope KW - Publius Vergilius Maro KW - Roman art KW - Roman history KW - Roman literature KW - Telemachus KW - Trojan War KW - Troy KW - Virgil KW - classics KW - comedy KW - dissent KW - epic cycle KW - epic poetry KW - ethical philosophy KW - intertextuality KW - kingship theory KW - metapoetics KW - opposition KW - politics KW - tragedy and comedy KW - tragedy N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; A Note to the Reader --; Introduction --; 1. Arms and a Man --; 2. Third Ways --; 3. Reading Aeneas --; Appendix: mene in-and mênin --; Works Cited --; Index of Passages Cited --; General Index --; A NOTE ON THE TYPE; restricted access N2 - A major new interpretation of Vergil's epic poem as a struggle between two incompatible versions of the Homeric heroThis compelling book offers an entirely new way of understanding the Aeneid. Many scholars regard Vergil's poem as an attempt to combine Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey into a single epic. Joseph Farrell challenges this view, revealing how the Aeneid stages an epic contest to determine which kind of story it will tell—and what kind of hero Aeneas will be.Farrell shows how this contest is provoked by the transgressive goddess Juno, who challenges Vergil for the soul of his hero and poem. Her goal is to transform the poem into an Iliad of continuous Trojan persecution instead of an Odyssey of successful homecoming. Farrell discusses how ancient critics considered the flexible Odysseus the model of a good leader but censured the hero of the Iliad, the intransigent Achilles, as a bad one. He describes how the battle over which kind of leader Aeneas will prove to be continues throughout the poem, and explores how this struggle reflects in very different ways on the ethical legitimacy of Rome’s emperor, Caesar Augustus.By reframing the Aeneid in this way, Farrell demonstrates how the purpose of the poem is to confront the reader with an urgent decision between incompatible possibilities and provoke uncertainty about whether the poem is a celebration of Augustus or a melancholy reflection on the discontents of a troubled age UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691211176?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691211176 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691211176/original ER -