Joseph Farrell is Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of several books and papers on Latin literature, including Vergil's Georgics and the Traditions of Ancient Epic (1991), and Latin Language and Latin Culture from Ancient to Modern Times (2001).

Michael C. J. Putnam is MacMillan Professor of Classics and Professor of Comparative Literature, Emeritus, at Brown University. His works include Maffeo Vegio: Short Epics (2004), Poetic Interplay: Catullus and Horace (2006), and The Virgilian Tradition: The First Fifteen Hundred Years (with Jan Ziolkowski, 2008)

Illustrations viii Notes on Contributors x Preface xv Acknowledgments xvi Note on References xvii Introduction 1
Joseph Farrell and Michael C.J. Putnam Part I The Aeneid in Antiquity 11 1 Vergil's Library 13
Damien P. Nelis 2 On First Looking into Vergil's Homer 26
Ralph Hexter 3 The Development of the Aeneas Legend 37
Sergio Casali 4 Aeneas' Sacral Authority 52
Vassiliki Panoussi 5 Vergil's Roman 66
J.D. Reed 6 Vergil, Ovid, and the Poetry of Exile 80
Michael C.J. Putnam 7 The Unfinished Aeneid? 96
James J. O'Hara 8 The Life of Vergil before Donatus 107Fabio Stok Part II Medieval and Renaissance Receptions 121 9 Vergil and St. Augustine 123
Garry Wills 10 Felix Casus: The Dares and Dictys Legends of Aeneas 133
Sarah Spence 11 Vergil in Dante 147
Rachel Jacoff 12 Marvelous Vergil in the Ferrarese Renaissance 158
Dennis Looney 13 Spenser's Vergil: The Faerie Queene and the Aeneid 173
Philip Hardie 14 The Aeneid in the Age of Milton 186
Henry Power 15 Practicing What They Preach? Vergil and the Jesuits 203
Yasmin Haskell 16 The Aeneid from the Aztecs to the Dark Virgin: Vergil, Native Tradition, and Latin Poetry in Colonial Mexico from Sahagún's Memoriales (1563) to Villerías' Guadalupe (1724) 217
Andrew Laird 17 Vergil and Printed Books, 1500-1800 234Craig Kallendorf Part III The Aeneid in Music and the Visual Arts 251 18 Vergil and the Pamphili Family in Piazza Navona, Rome 253
Ingrid Rowland 19 Visual and Verbal Translation of Myth: Neptune in Vergil, Rubens, and Dryden 270
Reuben A. Brower 20 The Æneas of Vergil: A Dramatic Performance Presented in the Original Latin by John Ogilby 290
Kristi Eastin 21 Empire and Exile: Vergil in Romantic Art 311
David Blayney Brown 22 Laocoons 325
Glenn W. Most 23 Vergil in Music 341William Fitzgerald Part IV The American Aeneid 353 24 Vergil and the Early American Republic 355
Carl J. Richard 25 Why Did American Women Read the Aeneid? 366
Caroline Winterer 26 Vergil in the Black American Experience 376
Michele Valerie Ronnick 27 Vergil and Founding Violence 391
Michèle Lowrie 28 Figuring the Founder: Vergil and the Challenge of Autocracy 404Joy Connolly Part V Modern Reactions to the Aeneid 419 29 Classic Vergil 421
Kenneth Haynes 30 Vergil's Detractors 435
Joseph Farrell 31 Mind the Gap: On Foreignizing Translations of the Aeneid 449
Susanna Morton Braund 32 Vergil's Aeneid and Contemporary Poetry 465
Karl Kirchwey Bibliography 482 Index 531