Death and the Optimistic Prophecy in Vergil's AENEID

James J. O'Hara

Death and the Optimistic Prophecy in Vergil's AENEID
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Country
United States
Published
28 June 2016
Pages
220
ISBN
9780691635286

Death and the Optimistic Prophecy in Vergil’s AENEID

James J. O'Hara

Here James O'Hara shows how the deceptive nature of prophecy in the Aeneid complicates assessment of the poem’s attitude toward its hero’s achievement and toward the future of Rome under Augustus Caesar. This close study of the language and rhetorical context of the prophecies reveals that they regularly suppress discouraging material: the gods sen

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