TY  - BOOK
AU  - Quint,David
TI  - Virgil's double cross: design and meaning in the Aeneid 
SN  - 9780691179384 (pbk.)
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Virgil.
KW  - Epic poetry, Latin
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Rome
KW  - History
KW  - Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D
KW  - In literature
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-202) and index
N2  - "The message of Virgil's Aeneid once seemed straightforward enough: the epic poem returned to Aeneas and the mythical beginnings of Rome in order to celebrate the city's present world power and to praise its new master, Augustus Caesar. Things changed when late twentieth-century readers saw the ancient poem expressing their own misgivings about empire and one-man rule. In this timely book, David Quint depicts a Virgil who consciously builds contradiction into the Aeneid. The literary trope of chiasmus, reversing and collapsing distinctions, returns as an organizing signature in Virgil's writing: a double cross for the reader inside the Aeneid's story of nation, empire, and Caesarism."--Back cover
ER  -