Group Project #1 (sample suggestions for Vergil)
Direct/explicit receptions of Vergil's Aeneid:
The Aeneid in Film
Examples:
La leggenda di Enea, aka The Avenger (Dir. Giorgio Venturini, 1962): https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4f0e75
Dido and Aeneas (Dir. Barbara Willis Sweete; Mark Morris Dance Group, 1995), dance adaptation of Purcell's opera
The Aeneid & Television
Example:
The Aeneid & Battlestar Gallactica: http://www.theguardian.com/culture/charlottehigginsblog/2009/feb/24/classics-classics
The Aeneid in Literature
Examples:
Chaucer’s House of Fame (1386)
Petrarch’s epic Africa (1343)
Girolamo Fracastoro’s New World epic poem Syphilis (1530)
Herrman Broch, The Death of Vergil (1945)
John Shield, The American Aeneas: Classical Origins of the American Self (2001)
Margaret Drabble, The Seven Sisters (2002)
Joyce Carol Oates, The Tatooed Girl (2004)
Ursula K. Le Guin, Lavinia (2008)
shorter poems:
Wilfred Owen, "Arms and the Boy" (1918)
Allen Tate, “Aeneas at Washington” (1933)
Robert Lowell, “Falling Asleep over the Aeneid” (1947)
Fleur Adcock, "Purple Shining Lilies" (1976)
Seamus Heaney, “Route 110” poems (after Aeneid 6, in Human Chain, 2010)
children's literature:
Penelope Lively, In Search of a Homeland: The Story of the 'Aeneid' (2001)
Peter Wright, The Adventures of Aeneas (2012)
Emily Frenkel, Aeneas: Virgil's Epic Retold for Young Readers (2015)
The Aeneid in Theater and in Music
Examples:
Henry Purcell’s opera, Dido and Aeneas (1689)
Richard Thomas' Why Bob Dylan Matters (2017: NPR author interview; http://journal.oraltradition.org/files/articles/22i/Thomas.pdf)
The Aeneid in the Visual Arts
Examples:
Mosaic of Vergil seated between the Muses of History and Tragedy, Hadrumentum, Africa (3rd century CE)
Aeneid Mosaics of Low Ham Villa, Somerset, England (4th century CE)
Tiepolo, The Apotheosis of Aeneas (1763-4)
Bernini, Aeneas, Anchises, and Ascanius Fleeing Troy (1619)
Poussin, Landscape with Hercules and Cacus (1656)
Sir Joshua Reynolds, The Death of Dido (1781)
Claude Lorrain, The Arrival of Aeneas at the Pallanteum (1675)
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Virgil Reading the Aeneid to the Emperor (1812)
For more images, see:
https://vroma.org/
The Warburg Institute Iconographic Database: https://iconographic.warburg.sas.ac.uk/categories
Vergil in the Middle Ages
Vergil as magician, prophet, and virtuous pagan: sortes Vergilianae
Vergil & Dante's Divine Comedy
Bibliography: http://virgil.org/bibliography/