Format:
1 online resource (xi, 265 pages)
ISBN:
9781009319850
,
9781009319874
,
9781009319843
Content:
This book explores how Virgil in his Aeneid incorporates the ancient Stoics' thinking about how humans can exercise moral responsibility and how this can affect providential world fate. The third-century BC philosopher Chrysippus of Soli located this freedom in the way we can assent to courses of action, and Graham Zanker innovatively demonstrates how Virgil appropriates this concept in the way that Jupiter and Aeneas can assent to the world fate in which they have discovered they must play a part, or Juno and Dido can withhold their assent to it. Indeed, Virgil even offers the model to no-one less than Augustus: the emperor is invited to give his assent to ruling what was believed to be his 'world-wide' empire justly. The book is accessible to both students and professional scholars of the Aeneid, with all Greek and Latin translated into idiomatic English.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 06 Apr 2023)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781009319874
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Zanker, Graham, 1947 - Fate and the hero in Virgil's Aeneid Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2023 ISBN 9781009319874
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781009319843
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/9781009319850
