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Virgil's Double Cross : Design and Meaning in the Aeneid /
"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 reade...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2018]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Virgil's Double Cross: Chiasmus and the Aeneid (Books 1 and 12); 2 Aeacidae Pyrrhi: Trojans, Romans, and Their Greek Doubles (Books 2-3 and 6); 3 The Doubleness of Dido (Books 1, 4, 6); 4 Sons of Gods in Book 6; 5 Culture and Nature in Book 8 (Books 7-9); 6 The Brothers of Sarpedon: The Design of Book 10 (Books 9-11); 7 The Second Second Patroclus and the End of the Aeneid (Books 10 and 12); Bibliography; Index.