Carthage in Virgil's Aeneid : staging the enemy under Augustus

Carthage in Virgil's Aeneid : staging the enemy under Augustus / Elena Giusti.

"Founded upon more than a century of civil bloodshed, the first imperial regime of ancient Rome, the Principate of Caesar Augustus, looked at Rome's distant and glorious past in order to justify and promote its existence under the disguise of a restoration of the old Republic. In doing so,...

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Main Author: Giusti, Elena (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Series:Cambridge classical studies.
Subjects:
Virgil. > Aeneis.
Epic poetry, Latin > History and criticism.
Carthage (Extinct city) > In literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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