Virgil's Aeneid Semantic Relations and Proper Names [Hardcover]

Paschalis offers a new reading of the wholeAeneidbased on the meaning of proper names and using the scene of Laocoon and the Trojan Horse as a model. He sheds fresh light on every episode and book of the epic from the storm ofAeneid1 to the death of Turnus, and reveals a sustained, pervasive, and deep-going exploitation of the meaning of names.

This extraordinarily stimulating book is the first detailed study of theAeneidbased on close examination of its essential semantic clusters....This is a seminal, innovative work and will be as influential for the study of Virgil's semantics as the theoretical work of Conte is for his generic originality. --Michael C. J. Putnam,Brown University