Memory in Vergil's Aeneid : Creating the Past
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
110703180X
ISBN-13
9781107031807
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 12th, 2013
Print length
240 Pages
Weight
49 grams
Dimensions
23.10 x 15.80 x 1.90 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: classical, early & medievalLiterary studies: poetry & poets
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Memory was a powerful concept in Augustan Rome, pervading art, literature, religion, and social and political life. Considering crucial scenes in the Aeneid, this distinctive new reading finds memory to be a dynamic process, one that offers a mechanism for integrating a traumatic past with an uncertain future.
Tracing the path from Troy''s destruction to Rome''s foundation, the Aeneid explores the transition between past and future. As the Trojans struggle to found a new city and the narrator sings of his audience''s often-painful history, memory becomes intertwined with a crucial leitmotif: the challenge of being part of a group that survives violence and destruction only to face the daunting task of remembering what was lost. This book offers a new reading of the Aeneid that engages with critical work on memory and questions the prevailing view that Aeneas must forget his disastrous history in order to escape from a cycle of loss. Considering crucial scenes such as Aeneas'' reconstruction of Celaeno''s prophecy and his slaying of Turnus, this book demonstrates that memory in the Aeneid is a reconstructive and dynamic process, one that offers a social and narrative mechanism for integrating a traumatic past with an uncertain future.
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