Madness Unchained

The book aims at providing a coherent guide to the entirety of Virgil's Aeneid with analysis of every scene and in some cases every line of crucial passages. The book tries to provide a guide to the vast bibliography and scholarly apparatus that has grown around Virgil studies (especially over the past century) and to offer some critical study of what Virgil's purpose and intent may have been in crafting his response to Augustus' political ascendancy in Rome Rome's history of near-constant civil strife and the myths of Rome's origins and their conflicting Trojan Greek and native Italian origins.