Liminality in the Aeneid

A Study in Liminal Poetic Technique

Marco Menna (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

300 Seiten

2026 | 1. Auflage
Narr Francke Attempto (Verlag)
9783381150410 (ISBN)

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Die Aeneis, das Meisterwerk der lateinischen Dichtung, schildert die traumatische Verwandlung einer Schar von Besiegten und Flüchtlingen, Überlebenden der Vernichtung Trojas, zur Keimzelle von Jupiters Volk der Römer, das dazu bestimmt ist, der Welt Frieden und Ordnung zu bringen. Die vorliegende Studie interpretiert diese Wesens-Verwandlung als einen Übergangsritus, dessen liminale Phase durch schmerzhafte Prüfungen, Rätsel und Widersprüche gekennzeichnet ist. Untersucht werden die faszinierende liminale Bildersprache, die vielschichtigen rituellen Symbole und das komplexe Zusammenspiel von Göttern, Menschen und Zwischenwesen im Übergang zu einem kosmischen Goldenen Zeitalter. The Aeneid, the masterpiece of Latin poetry, depicts the traumatic transformation of a band of vanquished refugees, survivors of the destruction of Troy, into the nucleus of Jupiter's Roman people, destined to bring peace and order to the world. This study interprets this transformation of being as a rite of passage, characterized by a liminal phase involving painful trials, riddles and contradictions. It explores the intriguing liminal imagery and multifaceted ritual symbols, as well as the intricate interplay between gods, humans, and intermediate beings during the transition to a cosmic Golden Age.

Preface
1 Introduction-Vulnerable Suspense
2 Liminal Imagery in Context
2.1 Some Notions of Ritual and Liminal Theory
2.2 Selected Critical Approaches to the Aeneid
2.3 Narratology, Vision, Space, Time, and Memory
2.4 Intertextuality, Imagery, and Liminality in the Aeneid
2.5 A Different Epic
2.6 The Liminal Approach and its Limitations
3 Diversions and the Journey Up-stream
3.1 The Short Proem-Toil, Hardship, and Problems
3.2 First Vista: Jupiter, Venus, and Antenor
3.3 Criteria for Determining Liminal Symbolism
3.4 Second Vista: The Grove at the Mouth of the Tiber
4 The Problem of the City Walls
4.1 Sacredness, Liminality, and Symbolism of the City Walls
4.2 Doomed Walls and Discord-Troy, Thebes, and Carthage
4.3 Third Vista: Hector and Venus at Troy
4.4 Ships, Walls, and the Horse
4.5 Fourth Vista: Venus and Mercury at Carthage
4.6 Fifth Vista: The Mothers on the Walls
5 Trying to Escape the Sea
5.1 Sixth Vista: The Sea Storm
5.2 Seventh Vista: The Shore and the Cliff of Carthage
5.3 Eighth Vista: Shores, Prophecies, and the Elusive Walls
5.4 Ninth Vista: Hector's False Grave in False Troy
6 Liminal Spaces
6.1 Tenth Vista: The Body on the Shore
6.2 The Island of Sicily
6.3 Thresholds
6.4 The Labyrinth
6.5 Temples and Prismatic Nodes
6.6 The Cave of the Underworld
7 The Trojans in Liminality
7.1 Weariness, Estrangement, and Learning
7.2 Marginality, Identity, and Lack of Identity
7.3 Aeneas in Liminality
7.4 Dualities and Symbolic Twinship
7.5 Strife and Reconciliation-Ending Liminality
8 Towards a New Golden Age
8.1 Eleventh Vista: The Trees of Mater Idaea
8.2 The Gods and Liminality
8.3 Multiple Liminalities
8.4 Apotheosis
8.5 The Citadel of Heaven
8.6 The Ritual Cosmic Transition and its Symbolism
8.7 Jupiter's Fatum, Magna Mater, and the Golden Age
Appendix: Liminal Symbols and Concepts
Works Cited
Critical Editions
Commentaries
Encyclopaedic Works
Articles and Monographs
Index of Passages Discussed
General Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	27.4.2026
Sprache	englisch
Maße	150 x 220 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
Schlagworte	Aeneid • Aeneis • classical latin • Classical Philology • Classical poetry • classics • Golden Age • goldene Latinität • Klassische Dichtung • Klassische Philologie • klassisches Latein • Lateinische Dichtung • Lateinische Literatur • Latin Literature • Latin Poetry • Liminalität • Liminality • literarische Analyse • Literarische Anthropologie • Literarische Ethnologie • literarische Interpretation • Literarische Liminalität • Literary Analysis • Literary Anthropology • literary ethnology • literary interpretation • Literary Liminality • Mythologie • Mythology • Religionsstudien • Religionswissenschaft • Religious Studies • Vergil • Virgil
ISBN-13	9783381150410 / 9783381150410
Zustand	Neuware