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In Search of Aeneas - Classical Myth or Bronze Age Hero? (Hardcover)
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In Search of Aeneas - Classical Myth or Bronze Age Hero? (Hardcover)
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Aeneas is one of the most prominent heroes who fought at Troy, as
told in Homer’s Iliad, and he is the subject of Virgil’s
Aeneid. Both works lie at the heart of western civilisation and are
fantastic adventures involving love and war, journeys across
wine-dark seas and the destruction and founding of cities. Anthony
Adolph analyses all the Greek and Roman myths about Aeneas to
create the biography of a character who, though heavily
fictionalised, may well have been a real person. In Search of
Aeneas is essential reading for anyone interested in the links
between classical mythology and ancient history, and the great
empires of the Mediterranean. The author transports the reader on a
fabulous journey in Aeneas’s footsteps through the archaeological
sites of the ancient world, from Troy to Rome. He cuts through the
complexities of the classical texts and academic papers, explaining
what they say about Aeneas in straightforward terms. By rooting the
myths in real places, he makes them more comprehensible, especially
for newcomers to the story. Rather than be daunted by Aeneas as a
semi-divine, mythological figure, Adolph has approached him as any
genealogist should treat an ancestor, seeking to understand him in
the context of his family and the era, and builds on the growing
academic view that the core of the Iliad is based on real events.
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