Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Prologue
- Introduction: the critical landscape
- 1 Virgil and Augustus
- 2 Virgil and the poets: Horace, Ovid and Lucan
- 3 Other voices in Servius: schooldust of the ages
- 4 Dryden's Virgil and the politics of translation
- 5 Dido and her translators
- 6 Philology and textual cleansing
- 7 Virgil in a cold climate: fascist reception
- 8 Beyond the borders of Eboli: anti-fascist reception
- 9 Critical end games
- Bibliography
- Index
7 - Virgil in a cold climate: fascist reception
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Prologue
- Introduction: the critical landscape
- 1 Virgil and Augustus
- 2 Virgil and the poets: Horace, Ovid and Lucan
- 3 Other voices in Servius: schooldust of the ages
- 4 Dryden's Virgil and the politics of translation
- 5 Dido and her translators
- 6 Philology and textual cleansing
- 7 Virgil in a cold climate: fascist reception
- 8 Beyond the borders of Eboli: anti-fascist reception
- 9 Critical end games
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The new spirit, to which the future belongs, finds its origin in the Orient and is the deadly enemy of pure Hellenism.
U. VON WILAMOWITZ-MOELLENDORFF, Hellenistische Dichtung I (Berlin 1924) 2The Hellenic ideal of culture should also remain preserved for us in its exemplary beauty … The struggle that rages today is for very great aims. A culture combining millenniums and embracing Hellenism and Germanism is fighting for its existence.
A. HITLER, Mein Kampf (Munich 1925) 423We believe in the future of the Germans.
We know that the German has powers which designate him to lead the community of the occidental nations towards a more beautiful life.
We acknowledge in spirit and in deed the great traditions of our nation which, through the amalgamation of Hellenic and Christian origins in the Germanic character, created western man.
COUNT CLAUS SCHENK VON STAUFFENBERG, from Stauffenberg's Oath, some days earlier in the month of his failed attempt on the life of Hitler on 20 July 1944
Vietnam to Pasewalk
F. Serpa has written of Virgilian studies: “In studying this poet only through our own contemporary experiences, we run the risk of speaking too much of ourselves, indirectly, of our anguishes and our rationalizing schemes, and too little of him. It is a risk which certain modern critics, even intelligent and original ones, have not avoided.” This is quite true, but it is not a critical tendency confined to any place or any time, nor to any particular political or ideological outlook. In short it is far from being applicable only to oppositional or “post-Vietnam” reading, as the contemporary Augustans would like to think of it.
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- Virgil and the Augustan Reception , pp. 222 - 259Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2001
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