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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    02 March 2017
    20 January 2017
    ISBN:
    9781316335840
    9781107115392
    9781107535695
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316335840
    Dimensions:
    (216 x 138 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.42kg, 246 Pages
    Dimensions:
    (216 x 140 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.3kg, 246 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Classical Studies, Classical Studies (General), Classical Literature
    Series:
    Cambridge Classical Studies
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    Subjects:
    Classical Studies, Classical Studies (General), Classical Literature
    Series:
    Cambridge Classical Studies
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    Ascanius is the most prominent child hero in Virgil's Aeneid. He accompanies his father from Troy to Italy and is present from the first book of the epic to the last; he is destined to found the city of Alba Longa and the Julian family to which Caesar and Augustus both belonged; and he hunts, fights, makes speeches, and even makes a joke. In this first book-length study of Virgil's Ascanius, Anne Rogerson demonstrates the importance of this character not just to the Augustan family tree but to the texture and the meaning of the Aeneid. As a figure of prophecy and a symbol both of hopes for the future and of present uncertainties, Ascanius is a fusion of epic and dynastic desires. Compelling close readings of the representation and reception of this understudied character throughout the Aeneid expose the unexpectedly childish qualities of Virgil's heroic epic.

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    'This fine and stimulating book discusses multivalent and slippery prophecies, significant names and their etymologies, and especially the importance of variant and inconsistent versions of myth.'

    James J. O’Hara Source: Bryn Mawr Classical Review

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