Finding Italy : travel, nation and colonization in Vergil's Aeneid /
Finding Italy explores the journey of the Romans' ancestor Aeneas and his fellow Trojans from their old home, Troy, to their new country, Italy, narrated in Vergil's epic poem Aeneid. K.F.B. Fletcher argues that a main narrative theme is patriotism, specifically the problem of how one come...
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
[2014]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : why directions matter
- Book 1 : tantae molis erat Romanam condere gentem : introduction of themes
- Book 2 : heu fuge, nate dea : the end and beginning
- Book 3 : antiquam exquirite matrem : setting the colonization narrative in motion
- Book 4 : hic amor, haec patria est : the place of love
- Book 5 : lectos iuuenes, defer in Italiam : transformation of the mission
- Book 6 : aeternumque tenet per saecula nomen : names on the land
- The poem's second half : occidit, occideritque sinas cum nomine Troia : journey's end.