![]() ![]() We will look at how the poem’s final ambiguities have been dealt with in the past, and the very different ‘Virgils’ and ‘Aeneids’ that these efforts have produced. ![]() It is this problem of the conclusion that ends without neatly resolving that we will dive into in the seminar, but to do this we will need to have a good sense of the whole. A clear sense of the poem’s ending as it should always comes from readers working from clues and adducing resolutions, and from their choosing to value some things over others, rather than from anything ineluctable and explicit in the text itself. But the seminar itself will focus largely (though not exclusively) on the poem’s final book, where many of the work’s big issues come to a head, but where few if any of these issues are straightforwardly and/or satisfactorily ‘resolved’. The seminar’s participants are asked to read (or to refamiliarize themselves with) the epic in its entirety. This seminar will offer participants the chance to reconnect with one of the ancient world’s most famous poems, Virgil’s classic epic on the adventures of Aeneas. ![]()
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