{"product_id":"virgils-homeric-lens","title":"Virgil's Homeric Lens","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eVirgil’s Homeric Lens\u003c\/em\u003e reevaluates the traditional view of the Aeneid’s relationship to Homer’s \u003cem\u003eIliad\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/em\u003e. Almost since the death of Virgil, there has been an assumption that the Aeneid breaks into two discrete halves: Virgil’s \u003cem\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/em\u003e, and Virgil’s \u003cem\u003eIliad\u003c\/em\u003e. Although modified in various ways over the centuries, this neat dichotomy has generally diminished the complexity and resonance of the connection between the two canonical epic poets. This work offers an alternate approach in which Virgil uses the transformative power of the \u003cem\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/em\u003e as a precise filter through which to read the Iliadic experience. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy examining the ways in which Virgil bases his own epic project on the dynamic interaction between the two Homeric poems themselves, Edan Dekel proposes a system in which the Aeneid uses the \u003cem\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/em\u003e both as a conceptual model for writing an intertextual epic and as a powerful refracting lens for the specific interpretation of the \u003cem\u003eIliad\u003c\/em\u003e and its consequences. The traditional view of the Homeric poems as static sources for the construction of distinct \"Odyssean\" and \"Iliadic\" halves of the Aeneid is supplanted by an analysis which emphasizes the active and persistent influence of the \u003cem\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/em\u003e as a guide to processing the major thematic concerns of the \u003cem\u003eIliad\u003c\/em\u003e and exploring the multiple aftermaths of the Trojan war.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54243712237912,"sku":"9781138802292","price":71.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781138802292.jpg?v=1769731240","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/virgils-homeric-lens","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}