| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 334 pages) |
| Series |
Cambridge classical studies
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Cambridge classical studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| 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. |
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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. |
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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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Virgil. Aeneis.
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Aeneis (Virgil) |
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Carthage (Extinct city) -- In literature.
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Epic poetry, Latin -- History and criticism.
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POETRY -- Ancient, Classical & Medieval. |
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Epic poetry, Latin |
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Literature |
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Tunisia -- Carthage (Extinct city) |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781108416801 1108416802 (DLC) 2017049393 (OCoLC)1005197367 |
| ISBN |
9781108271547 (electronic bk.) |
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1108271545 (electronic bk.) |
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9781108241960 |
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1108241964 |
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9781108416801 (hardcover) |
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1108416802 (hardcover) |
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1108266088 |
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9781108266086 |
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