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Contents Preface and Acknowledgments Text and Art Acknowledgments Abbreviations Chapter 1. Prophaenomena ad Vergilium Theory Theoria Ante ora patrum The Scope of the Argument Chapter 2. Ruse and Revelation: Visions of the Divine and the Telos of Narrative Seen/Unseen Gods Revealed A God in the Midst Chapter 3. Vision Past and Future Hector and the Penates Hindsight to Foresight: Andromache and Aeneas Imago Creusae Vision and Temporal Modality in Aeneas' Katabasis Site/Sight of Rome Conclusion Chapter 4. Hic amor: Love, Vision, and Destiny Aliud genus officii: Vision and the Second Favor Viewpoints of Departure: Deception, Vision, and the Separation of Dido and Aeneas Fixos Oculos Lauiniaque uenit Conclusion Chapter 5. Vision's Victory and the Telos of Narrative Failure of Rhetoric (Part 1): Effete oratores Drances and Turnus: Opposing Visions Hercules and Cacus: Light, Darkness, and Diction Failure of Rhetoric (Part 2): The Futility of Battlefield Entreaty in Books 10\-12 Failure of Rhetoric (Part 3): Sight Makes Right and the Aeneid's Finale Chapter 6. Conclusion Notes Bibliography
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Virgil. Aeneis.
Aeneas (Legendary character) in literature.
Epic poetry, Latin -- History and criticism.
Visual perception in literature.
Art and literature -- Rome.
Visions in literature.
Rome -- In literature.
Vision in literature.