Elegiac Love and Death in Vergil's Aeneid

Elegiac Love and Death in Vergil''s ''Aeneid'' poses new questions about Vergil''s pervasive engagement with elegy, both amatory and funerary, throughout his final epic endeavor. A foundational discussion of elegiac experimentation in the Eclogues, Georgics, and Aeneid 1-6 explores the aesthetic and conceptual development of destructive Vergilian amor (passion). The unique emphasis of subsequent c...