Giusti, Elena (2018) Carthage in Virgil's Aeneid : staging the enemy under Augustus. Cambridge classical studies . Cambridge UK; New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781108416801

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Abstract

Founded upon more than a century of civil bloodshed, the first imperial regime of ancient Rome, the Principate of Caesar Augustus, looked at Rome's distant and glorious past in order to justify and promote its existence under the disguise of a restoration of the old Republic. In doing so, it used and revisited the history and myth of Rome's major success against external enemies: the wars against Carthage. This book explores the ideological use of Carthage in the most authoritative of the Augustan literary texts, the Aeneid of Virgil. It analyses the ideological portrait of Carthaginians from the middle Republic and the truth-twisting involved in writing about the Punic Wars under the Principate. It also investigates the mirroring between Carthage and Rome in a poem whose primary concern was rather the traumatic memory of Civil War and the subsequent subversion of Rome's Republican institutions through the establishment of Augustus' Principate.

Item Type:	Book
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > PA Classical philology
Divisions:	Faculty of Arts > Classics and Ancient History
Series Name:	Cambridge classical studies
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:	Cambridge UK; New York
ISBN:	9781108416801
Official Date:	March 2018
Dates:	Date Event March 2018 Published 21 November 2016 Accepted
Number of Pages:	243
Status:	Not Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access
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