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Virgil's Double Cross - Design and Meaning in the Aeneid (Paperback)
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Virgil's Double Cross - Design and Meaning in the Aeneid (Paperback)
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The message of Virgil's Aeneid once seemed straightforward enough:
the epic poem returned to Aeneas and the mythical beginnings of
Rome in order to celebrate the city's present world power and to
praise its new master, Augustus Caesar. Things changed when late
twentieth-century readers saw the ancient poem expressing their own
misgivings about empire and one-man rule. In this timely book,
David Quint depicts a Virgil who consciously builds contradiction
into the Aeneid. The literary trope of chiasmus, reversing and
collapsing distinctions, returns as an organizing signature in
Virgil's writing: a double cross for the reader inside the Aeneid's
story of nation, empire, and Caesarism. Uncovering verbal designs
and allusions, layers of artfulness and connections to Roman
history, Quint's accessible readings of the poem's famous
episodes--the fall of Troy, the story of Dido, the trip to the
Underworld, and the troubling killing of Turnus-disclose
unsustainable distinctions between foreign war/civil war,
Greek/Roman, enemy/lover, nature/culture, and victor/victim. The
poem's form, Quint shows, imparts meanings it will not say
directly. The Aeneid's life-and-death issues-about how power
represents itself in grand narratives, about the experience of the
defeated and displaced, and about the ironies and revenges of
history-resonate deeply in the twenty-first century. This new
account of Virgil's masterpiece reveals how the Aeneid conveys an
ambivalence and complexity that speak to past and present.
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