A Companion to the Aeneid in Translation: Volume 1

Foreword
Preface

1. Historical background
1.1: Romeâs Origins â" Rival Traditions
1.2: Romeâs Origins â" Archaeology
1.3: From Aeneas to Romulus â" the Alban Kings (to 753 BCE)
1.4: The Roman Kings (to 509 BCE)
1.5: The Early Republic (to 133 BCE)
1.6: The Late Republic (from 133 BCE onwards)
1.7: Augustus in the Aeneid
1.8: Literary Sources for Roman History

2. Virgilâs Life and Works
2.1: Life
2.2: Virgilian Appendix.
2.3: Eclogues (or âBucolicsâ)
2.4: Georgics6
2.5: A Planned Career?

3. Main characters
3.1: Characterisation in the Aeneid
3.2: Aeneas
3.3: Turnus
3.4: Dido
3.5: Ascanius
3.6: Anchises
3.7: Latinus and Evander
3.8: Amata
3.9: Lavinia
3.10: Camilla

4. The Gods and Fate
4.1: Greek Versus Roman Gods
4.2: Olympian Gods in Homer
4.3: Olympian Gods in the Aeneid
4.4: Fate
4.5: Gods in Particular
4.6: Gigantomachy
4.7: Orphism and Pythagoreanism

5. Philosophical background
5.1: Plato and the Academy (First Half of the Fourth Century BCE)
5.2: Aristotle and the Peripatetics (from the Late Fourth Century BCE)
5.3: Epicureanism - History
5.4: Stoicism â" History
5.5: Stoicism, Epicureanism and the Aeneid
5.6: Ciceroâs Philosophical Writings

6. Society
6.1: Romanness
6.2: Family
6.3: Women - at Rome and in the Aeneid
6.4: Religion
6.5: Battles

7. Literary aspects
7.1: Structure
7.2: The Hero
7.3: Narratology
7.4: Ekphrasis
7.5: Similes
7.6: Speeches
7.7: Diction
7.8: Metre

8. Reading the Aeneid
8.1: Intratextuality â" Self-Allusion
8.2: Intertextuality, Narrow Sense â" External Allusion
8.3: Allusion and Subjectivity
8.4: Epic and other Literary Antecedents

9. Reception
9.1: The First 150 Years after Virgil
9.2: The Second to Fifth Centuries â" Servius and Macrobius
9.3: The Middle Ages and Renaissance - Survival
9.4: 16th to 19th Centuries â" Resurgence and Eclipse
9.5: 20th and 21st Centuries - Re-evaluation
9.6: Literary Theory

10. Translating the Aeneid (into English)

11. Maps

12. Family Tree of the Royal Houses of Greece and Troy

Notes
Select Bibliography
Index to the Introduction
Index to the Commentaries in Volumes 2 and 3