Research Catalog

Title

Pietas from Vergil to Dryden / James D. Garrison.

Author

Garrison, James D.

Publication

• University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, [1992]
• ©1992

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Details

Description

x, 340 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"For centuries the most revered poem in the Western literary canon, Vergil's Aeneid celebrates the Roman virtue of pietas. In the preface to his English translation of the poem, John Dryden attempts to explain all that this virtue includes: "Piety alone," he writes, "comprehends the whole Duty of Man towards the Gods, towards his Country, and towards his Relations." Dryden's definition belongs to a dialogue about meaning that reflects a history of contention over religious, political, and moral issues of enduring cultural significance. Because it is the site of antagonism between pagan and Christian, republican and imperialist, emperor and pope, Protestant and Catholic, pietas and its derivatives in the modern languages bring to literary works multiple contexts of ideological dispute. This book traces the history of the Vergilian ideal from classical Latin to neoclassical English literature. In the process, it comparatively engages interpretation of a range of literary works diversely responsive to the Aeneid: from the histories and historical epics of the Silver Age, to the medieval mirrors for magistrates, to Renaissance adaptations of Aeneid 4 and 12, and finally to Dryden's complete translation."--Jacket.

Subject

• Dryden, John, 1631-1700 > Knowledge and learning
• Virgil > Influence
• Aeneas (Legendary character) > In literature
• Aeneas (Legendary character)
• Dryden, John, 1631-1700
• Virgil
• Vergilius Maro, Publius v70-v19
• Turnus (Legendary character) in literature
• Literature, Medieval > Roman influences
• Literature, Modern > Roman influences
• Latin language > Semantics
• Pietas (The Latin word)
• Virtue in literature
• Piety in literature
• Duty in literature
• Virtues in literature
• 17.93 themes and motives in literature
• Duty in literature
• Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
• Latin language > Semantics
• Literature
• Literature, Medieval > Roman influences
• Literature, Modern > Roman influences
• Piety in literature
• Turnus (Legendary character) in literature
• Virtue in literature
• Geschichte
• Literatur
• Lyrik
• Pietät Motiv
• Rezeption
• Vroomheid
• Letterkunde
• Geschichte 29 v. Chr.-1700

Genre/Form

• Literature
• History (form)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-327) and indexes.

Contents

1. Pietas -- 2. Auctores Pietatis: Classical and Christian Ideas of Pietas -- 3. History: Pietas and Roman Destiny -- 4. Governance: Royal and Ecclesiastical Pietas in the Middle Ages -- 5. Love: Dido and Pietas in the Early Renaissance -- 6. War: Turnus and Pietas in the Later Renaissance -- 7. Heredes Pietatis: Pietas and Piety in the Work of John Dryden.

ISBN

• 0271007877
• 9780271007878
• 0271026367
• 9780271026367

LCCN

91012139

OCLC

• ocm23463347
• 23463347
• SCSB-14645233

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library