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In Vergil's Empire, Eve Adler offers an exciting new interpretation of the political thought of Vergil's Aeneid. Adler argues that in this epic poem, Vergil presents the theoretical foundations of a new political order, one that resolves the conflict between scientific enlightenment and ancestral religion that permeated the ancient world. The work concentrates on Vergil's response to the physics, psychology, and political implications of Lucretius' Epicurean doctrine expressed in De Rerum Natura. Proceeding by a close analysis of the Aeneid, Adler examines Vergil's critique of Carthage as a model of universal enlightenment, his positive doctrine of Rome as a model of universal religion, and his criticism of the heroism of Achilles, Odysseus, and Epicurus in favor of the heroism of Aeneas.
Beautifully written and clearly argued, Vergil's Empire will be of great value to all interested in the classical world.
Contents
Part 1 Part I: The Foundations of Carthage and of Rome
Chapter 2 The Theme of the Aeneid
Chapter 3 The Song of Iopas and the Song of Vergil
Chapter 4 The Carthaginian Enlightenment
Chapter 5 Was There a Roman Enlightenment?
Chapter 6 Lucretius' Teaching
Chapter 7 Furor
Chapter 8 Dido in Love
Part 9 Part II: The Greater Order of Things
Chapter 10 The Theme of the Aeneid Again
Chapter 11 The Golden Age
Chapter 12 Aeneas' Founding of Rome
Chapter 13 World Empire
Part 14 Part III: Pietatis Imago
Chapter 15 Piety and Heroic Virtue
Chapter 16 Aeneas and the Heroes
Chapter 17 The Education of Aeneas, I
Chapter 18 The Education of Aeneas, II
