Re: VIRGIL: The furor of Amata

[Jim O'Hara]

J. L. P. B. mentions Alison Keith; the title:

Keith, A.M. , Engendering Rome: Women in Latin Epic, Cambridge (2000)
http://www.cup.org/titles/catalogue.asp?isbn=052155621X ($US19.00 paperback)
see index s.v. Amata

also:
On Amata and Allecto see Feeney D.C. (1991) The Gods in Epic: Poets and
Critics of the Classical Tradition. Oxford

There is an important new commentray on Aeneid 7: Horsfall, Nicholas,
Virgil, Aeneid 7: a commentary. Mnemosyne Suppl. 198 (Leiden 2000)
(disagreeing with Feeney on the top)

not much on art in any of these

James Butrica wrote:
> 
> >I'm working on tacitus' use of furor in relation to Messalina (Claudius'
> >wife) and I remembered the Aeneid passage with Amata raging out of control
> >(like a top) in Aeneid 7. I seem to recall reading it as an undergrad over
> >20 years ago. Does anyone have any current thoughts on the role of Amata and
> >her madness (or, better yet, any images of it in medieval or modern art)?
> >Seems a peculiarly feminist topic, although Tacitus certainly uses it to
> >refer to the madness of soldiers fairly frequently (Hist. 1,63, 1.81, 2.46
> >and 4.27, as well as Annals 1.49. It is used for women in Annals 14.32,
> >where he describes the causes of the Boudican revolt in Britain.
> >    Thanks in advance for any help or suggestions.
> >
> >Cheers,
> >Dr. James Stewart
> >Southern Illinois University
> >
> 
> Is there anything relevant in Alison Keith's fairly recent book on women in
> epic ("Gendering Epic" I think was the title)?
> 
> James L. P. Butrica
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