K W Gransden

Biographic Data

ID960489
NAMEK W Gransden
GIVEN NAMESK W
FAMILY NAMEGransden
SIGNATUREGRANSDEN K W
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS12
TOTAL CITATIONS18
AUTHOR COUNT11
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1983
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
H-INDEX2

  • Virgil: The Aeneid

    K W Gransden, S J HarrisonBOOKVirgil2012

  • The after-life of the Aeneid

    K W Gransden, S J Harrison et al.CHAPTERVirgil2012

    Influence and reputation Perhaps the most remarkable feature of the after-life of the Aeneid is the sheer variety of ways in which it has been read, explained, criticised, imitated and admired from late antiquity until our own time. Homer enjoyed no such continuity, for the study of Greek virtually disappeared from Europe in the Dark Ages and was not fully revived until the Renaissance. It is not possible here to consider in any detail the poem's…

  • Reading the Aeneid

    K W Gransden, S J Harrison et al.CHAPTERVirgil2012

    The text The modern reader of the Aeneid , whether he reads it in Latin or in translation, will be reading a text which, in its physical appearance, seems no different from, say, a text of Paradise Lost. Nevertheless, it is worth reflecting briefly on the differences between an ancient and a modern text. Ancient texts were written on scrolls or rolls: long ‘books’ like the twelve into which the Aeneid is divided, each of between 700 and 1,000 lin…

  • Virgil and Homer

    K W Gransden, S J Harrison et al.CHAPTERVirgil2012

    ‘Arms and the man’ Other Latin poets before Virgil had written important large-scale hexameter compositions. Lucretius' great didactic epic De Rerum Natura (‘on the nature of things’) was an exposition of the physical universe according to the doctrine of Epicurus: although Virgil reacted against its materialism, he was much indebted to Lucretius' style and technique. Earlier, Quintus Ennius (239–169 bc ) had written heroic narrative epic, proudl…

  • Virgil: Aeneid XI

    Johanna Glazewski, Virgil Virgil et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World1994

  • Virgil: The Aeneid

    Michael C J Putnam, K W GransdenARTICLEThe Classical World1991

  • Virgil's Iliad: An Essay on Epic Narrative

    Thomas Van Nortwick, K W GransdenARTICLEThe American Journal of Philology1986Cited by: 5

  • Virgil's Iliad: An Essay on Epic Narrative

    Stephanie Quinn Katz, K W GransdenARTICLEThe Classical World1986Cited by: 12

  • Virgil's Iliad: An Essay on Epic Narrative

    Rory B Egan, K W GransdenARTICLEPhoenix1986Cited by: 1

    Preface Introduction Prologue: Homer's Iliad Part I. Peace: 1. Transition 2. Invocation 3. Homecoming 4. Dynastic 5. Juno 6. Catalogue 7. Diplomatic Part II. War: 8. Absence 9. Nisus and Euryalus 10. Siege 11. The council of the gods 12. The return of Aeneas 13. The funeral of Pallas 14. The council of war 15. Camilla's last stand 16. War and peace Bibliography Indexes

  • Aspects of the Epic

    Sheila Murnaghan, Tom Winnifrith et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World1985

  • Aspects of the Epic

    Tom Winnifrith, Penelope Murray et al.BOOKAspects of the Epic1983

  • Virgil’s Iliad

    K W GransdenCHAPTERAspects of the Epic1983

    The withdrawal of Achilles in wrath and pique from the fighting, and the run of Trojan victories consequent upon the successful plea of Thetis to Zeus on her son's behalf, constitute the narrative core of the Iliad Homer's 'wrath-theme'. The structure of Virgil's 'Iliadic' Aeneid incorporates the Homeric motif of the hero's absence but it has been transformed completely. In Aeneid 9 Aeneas is absent from the fighting which breaks out in that book…