Virgil, Aeneid 11 (Pallas & Camilla), 1–224, 498–521, 532–96, 648–89, 725–835. Latin Text, Study Aids with Vocabulary, and Commentary

Ingo Gildenhard and John Henderson

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A dead boy (Pallas) and the death of a girl (Camilla) loom over the opening and the closing part of the eleventh book of the Aeneid. Following the savage slaughter in Aeneid 10, the book opens in a mournful mood as the warring parties revisit yesterday’s killing fields to attend to their dead. One casualty in particular commands attention: Aeneas’ protégé Pallas, killed and despoiled by Turnus in the previous book. His death plunges his father Evander and his surrogate father Aeneas into heart-rending despair – and helps set up the foundational act of sacrificial brutality that caps the poem, when Aeneas seeks to avenge Pallas by slaying Turnus in wrathful fury. Turnus’ departure from the living is prefigured by that of his ally Camilla, a maiden schooled in the martial arts, who sets the mold for warrior princesses such as Xena and Wonder Woman. In the final third of Aeneid 11, she wreaks havoc not just on the battlefield but on gender stereotypes and the conventions of the epic genre, before she too succumbs to a premature death. In the portions of the book selected for discussion here, Virgil offers some of his most emotive (and disturbing) meditations on the tragic nature of human existence – but also knows how to lighten the mood with a bit of drag.

This course book offers the original Latin text, vocabulary aids, study questions, and an extensive commentary. Designed to stretch and stimulate readers, Ingo Gildenhard’s volume will be of particular interest to students of Latin studying for A-Level or on undergraduate courses. It extends beyond detailed linguistic analysis to encourage critical engagement with Virgil’s poetry and the most recent scholarly thought.

King's College, Cambridge, has generously contributed to this publication.

Virgil, Aeneid 11 (Pallas & Camilla), 1–224, 498–521, 532–96, 648–89, 725–835. Latin Text, Study Aids with Vocabulary, and Commentary

Ingo Gildenhard and John Henderson | December 2018

596 pp. | 17 b&w illustration | 6.14" x 9.21" (234 x 156 mm)

Classics Textbooks, vol. 7 | ISSN: 2054-2437 (Print) | 2054-2445 (Online)

ISBN Paperback: 9781783746002

ISBN Hardback: 9781783746019
ISBN Digital (PDF): 9781783746026
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DOI: 10.11647/OBP.0158

Categories: BIC: DB (Classical texts), HBLA1 (Classical civilisation), 4KL (A-Levels Aid), CFP (Translation and interpretation); BISAC: LIT004190 (LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical), LIT025030 (LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Politics)

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Preface and Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Virgil & Homer, or: The Overall Design of the Aeneid (and Book 11’s Place Within It)

2. Aeneid 11
3. Further Themes: Battle, Death, Ethnicity

Text

Commentary

Bibliography

Ingo Gildenhard is Reader in Classics and the Classical Tradition at Cambridge University, and a Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge. Ingo specializes in Latin literature (with a special emphasis on Cicero, Virgil, and Ovid); Roman culture (especially the political culture of the Roman republic and early principate); the classical tradition and literary and social theory. His previous publications include the monographs Paideia Romana: Cicero's Tusculan Disputations (2007), Creative Eloquence: The Construction of Reality in Cicero's Speeches (2011) and The Classical Tradition: Art, Literature, Thought (with Michael Silk and Rosemary Barrow) (2014). Ingo has also published six further textbooks with OBP: Cicero, Against Verres, 2.1.53-86; Virgil, Aeneid, 4.1-299; Tacitus, Annals, 15.20-23, 33-45 (with Mathew Owen), Cicero, On Pompey’s Command (De Imperio), 27-49 (with Louise Hodgson), Ovid, Metamorphoses, 3.511-733 (with Andrew Zissos), and Cicero, Philippic 2, 44–50, 78–92, 100–119.

John Henderson was Professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge and is a Life Fellow of King's College. He has published across the range of classical topics, including A Plautus Reader (2009), The Medieval World of Isidore of Seville (2007), ‘Oxford Reds’ (2006), The Triumph of Art at Thorvaldsens Museum (2005), HORTVS: The Roman Book of Gardening (2004).

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