{"product_id":"9780472133499-constructing-communities-in-vergil","title":"Constructing Communities in Vergil's Aeneid","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCultural Memory, Identity, and Ideology\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA new take on the \u003ci\u003eAeneid\u003c\/i\u003e, drawing previously unexplored connections between Vergil’s fictional world and its political context\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eConstructing Communities in Vergil's \u003c\/i\u003eAeneid\u003ci\u003e: Cultural Memory, Identity, and Ideology\u003c\/i\u003e presents a new examination of memory, ethnic identity, and politics within the fictional world of this Roman epic, drawing previously unexplored connections between Vergil’s characters, settings, and narrative and the political context of the early Roman Empire. This book investigates how the \u003ci\u003eAeneid\u003c\/i\u003e’s fictive ethnic communities—the Trojans, Carthaginians, Latins, and Arcadians who populate its poetic world—are shown to have identities, myths, and cultural memories of their own. And much like their real-life Roman counterparts, they engage in the politics of the past in such contexts as royal iconography, diplomacy, public displays, and incitements to war.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Where previous studies of identity and memory in the \u003ci\u003eAeneid \u003c\/i\u003ehave focused on the poem’s constructions of Roman identity, \u003ci\u003eConstructing Communities\u003c\/i\u003e turns the spotlight onto the characters themselves to show how the world inside the poem is replicating, as if in miniature, real forms of contemporary political and cultural discourse, reflecting an historical milieu where appeals to Roman identity were vigorously asserted in political rhetoric. The book applies this evidence to a broad literary analysis of the \u003ci\u003eAeneid\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as a reevaluation of its engagement with Roman imperial ideology in the Age of Augustus.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55258012320118,"sku":"9780472133499","price":65.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_32009750.jpg?v=1739367367","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780472133499-constructing-communities-in-vergil","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}