Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (226 pages)
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0691127409
,
1282157906
,
140082768X
,
9780691127408
,
9781282157903
,
9781400827688
Inhalt:
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
Inhalt:
Euryalus -- Turnus -- Dido -- Andromache -- Ancient cities -- Marcellus -- Aeneas
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-210) and indexes
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Reed, J.D Virgil's gaze Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2007
Sprache:
Englisch
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