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Author Giusti, Elena, author.

Title Carthage in Virgil's Aeneid : staging the enemy under Augustus / Elena Giusti
Published Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018
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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 334 pages)
Series Cambridge classical studies
Cambridge classical studies.
Contents Cover; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Epigraph; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations, editions and translations; Introduction: Tractatio, Re-tractatio, Revisionist History; How (Not) to Handle History: Horace's Ode to Pollio; Why Should Hannibal Wear Boots?; Staging the Enemy under Augustus; Chapter 1 Carthaginian Constructions, since the Middle Republic; 1.1 Barbarians at the Gates; 1.2 Augustan Barbarians; 1.3 Barbarian Carthaginians?; 1.4 The Enemy on Stage; 1.5 Plautus' Poenulus and the Mirror of the Enemy
Chapter 2 Polarity and Analogy in Virgil's Carthage2.1 Virgil's Barbarian Theatre; 2.2 Persian Carthaginians; 2.2.1 First Encounters; 2.2.2 Symbolic Affinities; 2.2.3 Polygamous and Incestuous Bonds; 2.3 Persian Dido: The Medea Intertext; 2.3.1 Colchian Medea; 2.3.2 Corinthian Medea; 2.3.3 Athenian/Persian Medea; 2.4 Trojan Carthaginians; 2.4.1 Stasis; 2.4.2 Teucrian Carthaginians; 2.4.3 Phoenician Carthaginians; Chapter 3 Virgil's Revisionist Epic and Livy's Revisionist History; 3.1 Virgil's and Livy's Linguistic Turn on the Hannibalic War; 3.2 The Historian and the Poet
3.3 The Poet: Fama and the Cause in Virgil's Carthage3.4 The Historian: Fama and the Pretext in Livy 21; 3.5 Conclusion; Chapter 4 Virgil's Punic/Civil Wars as Unspeakable; 4.1 Covering up the Wars; 4.2 Framing the Wars; 4.3 The First Punic War -- or Bellum Punicum; 4.4 The Second Punic War -- Dido in the Light of Ennius Livy; 4.4.1 Dido's Curse; 4.4.2 Dido and Hannibal; 4.4.3 Dido and Sophoniba; 4.5 The Capture of Carthage and Rome's Eternal Triumph; 4.5.1 Polybius' Anakyklosis; 4.5.2 Pythagoras' Anakyklosis; 4.5.3 Urbs Capta vs. Urbs Aeterna; 4.5.4 The End is the Beginning is the End; Conclusion: All the Perfumes of ArabiaBibliography; General Index; Index Locorum
Summary Investigates the representation of the Carthaginian enemy and the revisionist history of the Punic Wars in Virgil's Aeneid
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Subject Virgil. Aeneis.
SUBJECT Aeneis (Virgil) fast
Subject Epic poetry, Latin -- History and criticism
POETRY -- Ancient, Classical & Medieval.
Epic poetry, Latin
Literature
Carthage (Extinct city) -- In literature
Tunisia -- Carthage (Extinct city)
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
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