Some Books on the Aeneid and its contexts
Feeney, D. C. The Gods in Epic: Poets and Critics of the Classical Tradition. 1993.
Feeney, D. C. Literature and Religion at Rome. 1998.
Galinsky, K. Augustan Culture. 1996.
Galinsky, K. (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Augustus. 2005.
Hardie, P. Virgil’s Aeneid: Cosmos and Imperium. 1988.
Hardie, P. The Epic Successors of Virgil. 1993.
Hornblower, Simon and Spawforth, Antony. Oxford Classical Dictionary. 3d ed. Oxford. 1996.
s.v. “Propaganda”.
Hinds, S. Allusion and Intertext. 1998.
Marintdale, C. (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to Virgil. 1997.
Miller, J. Apollo, Augustus, and the Poets. 2010.
Perkell, Christine, ed. Reading Vergil's Aeneid: An Interpretive Guide. 1999.
Powell, Anton. Roman Poetry and Propaganda in the Age of Augustus. 1992.
Putnam, M. The poetry of the Aeneid; four studies in imaginative unity and design. 1965.
Quint, D. Epic and Empire. Princeton. 1993.
Rawson, Elizabeth. Intellectual Life in the Late Roman Republic. London, 1985.
Syme, R. The Roman Revolution. 1939.
Woodman, Tony and West, David, eds. Poetry and Politics in the Age of Augustus. 1984.
Zanker, P. The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus. 1988.
Some Books on Narrative Theory:
Bal, Mieke. Narratology. Introduction to the Theory of Narrative. Toronto and London. 1985.
Brooks, P. Reading for the Plot. Design and Intention in Narrative. New York. 1985.
Genette, G. Narrative Discourse. Translated by C. Lewin. Ithaca. 1980.
Jong, I. J. F. De. Narrators and Focalizers. The Presentation of the Story in the Iliad. Amsterdam.
1987.
Suleiman, S. and Crosman, I., (eds.) The Reader in the Text. Essays on Audience and
Interpretation. Princeton. 1980.