Carthage in Virgil's Aeneid - Staging the Enemy under Augustus

Explores the ideological use of Carthage in the most authoritative of the Augustan literary texts, the Aeneid of Virgil. Addressed to students and scholars of the classical world interested in the literature and ideology produced under autocratic regimes, the representations of enemies and the relationship between history, poetry, and myth.

List of contents

Introduction: tractatio, re-tractatio, revisionist history; 1. Carthaginian constructions, since the Middle Republic; 2. Polarity and analogy in Virgil's Carthage; 3. Virgil's revisionist Epic and Livy's revisionist history; 4. Virgil's Punic/Civil Wars as unspeakable; Conclusion: all the perfumes of Arabia.

About the author

Elena Giusti is Assistant Professor of Latin Literature and Language at the University of Warwick. She previously taught Classics at the Universities of Glasgow and Cambridge, where she was Research Fellow in Classics at St John's College.

Summary

Explores the ideological use of Carthage in the most authoritative of the Augustan literary texts, the Aeneid of Virgil. Addressed to students and scholars of the classical world interested in the literature and ideology produced under autocratic regimes, the representations of enemies and the relationship between history, poetry, and myth.

Product details

• Authors: Elena Giusti, Elena (University of Warwick) Giusti
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781108404181
• ISBN: 978-1-108-40418-1
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 215 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 450 g
• Illustrations: Worked examples or Exercises
• Series: Cambridge Classical Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Latin, HISTORY / Ancient / General, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval