Virgil's gaze: nation and poetry in the Aeneid
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1. Verfasser: Reed, Joseph D. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Princeton Princeton University Press ©2007
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-210) and indexes
Euryalus -- Turnus -- Dido -- Andromache -- Ancient cities -- Marcellus -- Aeneas
Virgil's Aeneid invites its reader to identify with the Roman nation whose origins and destiny it celebrates. But, as J.D. Reed argues in Virgil's Gaze, the great Roman epic satisfies this identification only indirectly--if at all. In retelling the story of Aeneas' foundational journey from Troy to Italy, Virgil defines Roman national identity only provisionally, through oppositions to other ethnic identities--especially Trojan, Carthaginian, Italian, and Greek--oppositions that shift with the shifting perspective of the narrative. Roman identity emerges as multivalent and constantly changing
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ISBN:140082768X
9781400827688

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