Elegiac Love and Death in Vergil's 'Aeneid'
poses new questions about Vergil's pervasive engagement with elegy, both amatory and funerary, throughout his final epic endeavor. A foundational discussion of elegiac experimentation in the
Eclogues
,
Georgics
, and
Aeneid
1-6 explores the aesthetic and conceptual development of destructive Vergilian
amor
(passion). The unique emphasis of subsequent chapters on the amatory and funerary elegiac dimensions of crucial episodes in
7-12 illuminates the intergeneric character of Vergil's martial
maius opus
. A detailed examination of the inter- and intratextual strands of pivotal moments in the
evinces Vergil's intense engagement with literary predecessors and contemporaries, his evolving artistic vision, and his enduring influence on subsequent Roman poets. Each chapter of this volume enhances our understanding of the generic complexity of the
, presenting revisionary readings of key episodes and transformative interpretations of its main characters.