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" Virgil's double cross : "
David Quint.
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BL
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845127
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Quint, David,1950-
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Virgil's double cross : : design and meaning in the Aeneid /\ David Quint.
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Princeton, New Jersey :: Princeton University Press,, [2018]
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1 online resource
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1400889758
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: 9781400889754
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9780691179377
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9780691179384
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Virgil's Double Cross: Chiasmus and the Aeneid (Books 1 and 12); 2 Aeacidae Pyrrhi: Trojans, Romans, and Their Greek Doubles (Books 2-3 and 6); 3 The Doubleness of Dido (Books 1, 4, 6); 4 Sons of Gods in Book 6; 5 Culture and Nature in Book 8 (Books 7-9); 6 The Brothers of Sarpedon: The Design of Book 10 (Books 9-11); 7 The Second Second Patroclus and the End of the Aeneid (Books 10 and 12); Bibliography; Index.
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"The message of Virgil's Aeneid once seemed straightforward enough: the epic poem returned to Aeneas and the mythical beginnings of Rome in order to celebrate the city's present world power and to praise its new master, Augustus Caesar. Things changed when late twentieth-century readers saw the ancient poem expressing their own misgivings about empire and one-man rule. In this timely book, David Quint depicts a Virgil who consciously builds contradiction into the Aeneid. The literary trope of chiasmus, reversing and collapsing distinctions, returns as an organizing signature in Virgil's writing: a double cross for the reader inside the Aeneid's story of nation, empire, and Caesarism."--Back cover.
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Virgil-- Criticism and interpretation.
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Virgil., Aeneis.
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Virgil.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- Ancient Classical.
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Aeneis (Virgil)
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873/.0109
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PA6825
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