Juno''s Aeneid - A Battle for Heroic Identity

A major new interpretation of Vergil's epic poem as a struggle between two incompatible versions of the Homeric heroThis compelling book offers an entirely new way of understanding the Aeneid. Many scholars regard Vergil's poem as an attempt to combine Homer's Iliad and Odyssey into a single epic. Joseph Farrell challenges this view, revealing

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Joseph Farrell

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A major new interpretation of Vergil's epic poem as a struggle between two incompatible versions of the Homeric heroThis compelling book offers an entirely new way of understanding the Aeneid. Many scholars regard Vergil's poem as an attempt to combine Homer's Iliad and Odyssey into a single epic. Joseph Farrell challenges this view, revealing

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• Authors: Joseph Farrell
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.12.2023
• EAN: 9780691221250
• ISBN: 978-0-691-22125-0
• No. of pages: 384
• Series: Martin Classical Lectures
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Classical linguistics / literary studies; HISTORY / Ancient / General, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, POETRY / Ancient & Classical, Ethics & moral philosophy, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literature: history & criticism, Ethics and moral philosophy, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Literature: history and criticism, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500