Vergil's Aeneid —— A Poem of Grief and Love

----- 维吉尔的埃涅阿斯纪

ISBN: 9789004096615 出版年：1993 页码：190 S Farron Brill

This book argues that the Aeneid's main purpose is to present a series of emotionally gripping episodes, not to praise Aeneas and his mission, criticize them or express "two voices" concerning them. Furthermore this approach explains what happens in the Aeneid better than the assumption that its purpose is to propound a message, that is how it was usually regarded into the nineteenth century and that is what the ancient Greek and Romans regarded as the primary purpose of literature.