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Finding Italy: Travel, Colonization, and Nation in Vergil's Aeneid

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Finding Italy: Travel, Colonization, and Nation in Vergil's Aeneid - Fletcher, K. F. B.
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Finding Italy explores the journey of the Romans' ancestor Aeneas and his fellow Trojans from their old home, Troy, to their new country, Italy, narrated in Vergil's epic poem Aeneid. K. F. B. Fletcher argues that a main narrative theme is patriotism, specifically the problem of how one comes to love one's new country. The various directions Aeneas receives throughout the first half of the poem are meant to create this love, explaining both to Aeneas and to Vergil's readers how they should respond to the new, unified Italy ...

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Finding Italy: Travel, Colonization, and Nation in Vergil's Aeneid 2014, The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor

ISBN-13: 9780472072286

Hardcover