Vergil's Aeneid and the Roman Self: Subject and Nation in Literary DiscourseNow in Paper! As the most widely read Roman poem in antiquity, the Aeneid was indelibly burned into the memories of generations of Roman school children. In this book, author Yasmin Syed analyzes the formative influence the poem exerted on its broad audience of educated Romans. Syed analyzes Roman pedagogy and reading practices as well as ancient beliefs about the powerful influence of poetry. Her study considers these cultural components together with the aspects of identity that define the Aeneid’s characters. By doing so, Syed shows how Vergil’s ancient audiences saw themselves—their experiences, goals, and values—reflected in the poem and guided by it. In particular, Syed’s treatment of gender and ethnicity brings to light the key role of Vergil’s poem in the formation of Romanness. |
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... ethnic identity . It is this link be- tween gender , passion , and ethnicity in Dido that I am interested in here . As a woman and a Carthaginian , Dido embodies otherness in a double sense against which Aeneas ' identity ( and the ...
... ethnic essentialism . But the notion of ethnic differences is not abandoned entirely ; it still forms part of the poem's ideological framework , at the same time as the discursive nature of ethnicity is laid open . The portrayal of the ...
... ethnic identities . Nevertheless , it is by means of ancestry that the poem's characters make claims and draw conclusions about ethnicity at another key moment of the poem . Amata's argument in favor of Turnus shows how ancestry and ethnic ...
Contents
The Aeneid and Roman Identity | 11 |
Poetry Power and the Emotions | 33 |
The Gaze | 53 |
Copyright | |
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