Virgil's Double Cross: Design and Meaning in the Aeneid - David Quint - Books - Princeton University Press - 9780691179384 - May 22, 2018
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Virgil's Double Cross: Design and Meaning in the Aeneid


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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 empi


248 pages

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released May 22, 2018
ISBN13 9780691179384
Publishers Princeton University Press
Pages 248
Dimensions 238 × 156 × 19 mm   ·   400 g
Language English  

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