Fate and the Hero in Virgil's Aeneid

This book explores how Virgil in his Aeneid incorporates the ancient Stoics'' thinking about how humans can exercise moral responsibility and how this can affect providential world fate. The third-century BC philosopher Chrysippus of Soli located this freedom in the way we can assent to courses of action, and Graham Zanker innovatively demonstrates how Virgil appropriates this concept in the way t...