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Memory in Vergil's Aeneid
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- Book Synopsis
- Tracing the path from Troy's destruction to Rome's foundation, the Aeneid explores the transition between past and future. As the Trojans struggle to found a new city and the narrator sings of his audience's often-painful history, memory becomes intertwined with a crucial leitmotif: the challenge of being part of a group that survives violence and destruction only to face the daunting task of remembering what was lost. This book offers a new reading of the Aeneid that engages with critical work on memory and questions the prevailing view that Aeneas must forget his disastrous history in order to escape from a cycle of loss. Considering crucial scenes such as Aeneas' reconstruction of Celaeno's prophecy and his slaying of Turnus, this book demonstrates that memory in the Aeneid is a reconstructive and dynamic process, one that offers a social and narrative mechanism for integrating a traumatic past with an uncertain future.
- About The Author
- Aaron M. Seider is an Assistant Professor at the College of the Holy Cross.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781107031807
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press, (12 September 2013)
- Number of Pages
- 240
- Weight
- 490 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 235 x 157 x 21 mm
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