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Kristopher Fletcher - Finding Italy: Travel, Nation, and Colonization in Vergil's Aeneid - 9780472072286 - V9780472072286
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Finding Italy: Travel, Nation, and Colonization in Vergil's Aeneid

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Description for Finding Italy: Travel, Nation, and Colonization in Vergil's Aeneid Hardcover. The Trojans' journey to Italy in Vergil s "Aeneid" teaches them to love their new homeland and their new name the Romans" Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; DSB; HBLA1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 161 x 30. Weight in Grams: 580.

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 comes to love one’s new country. The various directions Aeneas receives throughout the first half of the poem are meant to create this love, explaining both to Aeneas and to Vergil’s readers how they should respond to the new, unified Italy synonymous with Rome. These directions come from the gods, or from ... Read more

Finding Italy provides a very detailed reading of the directions Aeneas receives by situating them within their relevant contexts: ancient geography, Greek colonization narratives, prophecy, and ancient views of wandering. Vergil draws on all of these concepts to craft instructions that create in Aeneas an attachment to Italy before he ever arrives, a process that dramatizes a key emotional problem in the late first century BCE in the wake of the Social and Civil Wars: how to balance the love of one's modest birthplace with the love of Rome, the larger city that now encompasses it.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
290
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472072286
SKU
V9780472072286
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15

About Kristopher Fletcher
K. F. B. Fletcher is Associate Professor of Classics at Louisiana State University.

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