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Title: | The "Reassurance of Fratricide" in the 'Aeneid' | Contributor(s): | Pogorzelski, Randall (author) | Publication Date: | 2009 | DOI: | 10.1353/ajp.0.0049 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/6844 | Abstract: | Virgil's 'Aeneid' naturalizes Italian unity by projecting it onto the ancient past. By representing the Latin War as a civil war, the 'Aeneid' asserts that the ancient inhabitants of Italy, although temporarily and tragically divided, have always formed a natural unit. The ideology of unified Italy overwrites the historical Roman conquest of the peninsula. Although representations of civil war and poignant descriptions of the deaths of Aeneas' Italian enemies might seem to threaten the idea of 'tota Italia', the poem uses mourning for Italian deaths, like that of Lausus, to infuse the image of unified Italy with emotional force. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | American Journal of Philology, 130(2), p. 261-289 | Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press | Place of Publication: | United States of America | ISSN: | 1086-3168 0002-9475 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 200510 Latin and Classical Greek Literature | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 970120 Expanding Knowledge in Language, Communication and Culture | Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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