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Virgil's double cross : design and meaning in the Aeneid / David Quint.
LIBRA PA6825 .Q56 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Quint, David, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Virgil. Aeneis--Criticism and interpretation.
- Virgil.
- Epic poetry, Latin--History and criticism.
- Epic poetry, Latin.
- Rome--In literature.
- Rome.
- Rome (Empire).
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 218 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- "The message of Virgil's Aeneid once seemed straightforward enough: the epic poem returned to Aeneas and the mythical beginnings of Rome in order to celebrate the city's present world power and to praise its new master, Augustus Caesar. Things changed when late twentieth-century readers saw the ancient poem expressing their own misgivings about empire and one-man rule. In this timely book, David Quint depicts a Virgil who consciously builds contradiction into the Aeneid. The literary trope of chiasmus, reversing and collapsing distinctions, returns as an organizing signature in Virgil's writing: a double cross for the reader inside the Aeneid's story of nation, empire, and Caesarism."--Back cover.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-202) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0691179387
- 9780691179384
- 9780691179377
- 0691179379
- OCLC:
- 1005125940
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