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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... observed above , the spectacular quality of the Dido narrative is often accompanied by grammatical patterns that cast Dido as a grammatical object or a subject of passive or intransitive verbs , while contrasting her with other agents ...
... observed earlier on in Aeneid 1 , the convergence of the gazes of Aeneas and the reader . These narrative strategies articulate the qualitative difference between the gazes of Aeneas and Andromache . While Aeneas ' gaze is here also the ...
... observation may imply that the Trojans are a bit too credulous , it also clearly implies that they were too brave ... observed in Aeneas . When he sees the images on Juno's temple , he refuses to see hostility in them and instead sees ...
Contents
The Aeneid and Roman Identity | 11 |
Poetry Power and the Emotions | 33 |
The Gaze | 53 |
Copyright | |
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