The Aeneid of Virgil [sound recording] / Elizabeth Vandiver.
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SoundPublisher number: 303 | Teaching CompanySeries: Great courses (Compact disc)Publication details: Springfield, VA : Teaching Co., c2000.Description: 6 sound discs (ca. 360 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (62 p. ; 22 cm.)ISBN: - 1565853199 :
- 9781565853195
- 873/.01 22
- PA6825 .V36 2000b
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Audiobook on CD
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Lecturer: Elizabeth Vandiver.
Compact discs.
In container (26 cm.).
Presents Virgil's epic poem about Aeneas and his journey west from ruined Troy to the founding of a new nation in Italy. The Aeneid is an examination of leadership, a study of the conflict between duty and desire, a meditation on the relationship of the individual to society and of art to life, and a Roman's reflection on the dangers, and the allure, of Hellenistic culture. It represents both Virgil's tribute to Homer, and his attempt to re-imagine and surpass the Homeric model.
lecture 1. Introduction -- lecture 2. From Aeneas to Romulus -- lecture 3. Rome, Augustus, and Virgil -- lecture 4. The opening of the Aeneid -- lecture 5. From Troy to Carthage -- lecture 6. Unhappy Dido -- lecture 7. Funeral games and a journey to the dead -- lecture 8. Italy and the future -- lecture 9. Virgil's Iliad -- lecture 10. The inevitable doom of Turnus -- lecture 11. The gods and fate -- lecture 12. The end of the Aeneid and beyond.