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Pages: 296
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An examination of the main characters in the Aeneid - Aeneas himself, Dido and Turnus - in the light of Virgil's contemporary Augustan political and literary id
Vergil's Aeneid
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Pages: 356
Authors: Hans-Peter Stahl
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-12-31 - Publisher: Classical Press of Wales

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This title features a collection of 14 papers in which contributors use diverging critical methods on a selection of extracts from Vergil's epic, with the exami
Carthage in Virgil's Aeneid
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Pages: 349
Authors: Elena Giusti
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-03-29 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Investigates the representation of the Carthaginian enemy and the revisionist history of the Punic Wars in Virgil's Aeneid.
The Epic Successors of Virgil
Language: en
Pages: 148
Authors: Philip R. Hardie
Categories: History
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A critically sophisticated introduction to the epic tradition of the early Roman empire.
Aeneid
Language: en
Pages: 259
Authors: Virgil
Categories: Poetry
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-03-12 - Publisher: Courier Corporation

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Monumental epic poem tells the heroic story of Aeneas, a Trojan who escaped the burning ruins of Troy to found Lavinium, the parent city of Rome, in the west.