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languagehat.com : Braund's New Aeneid. languagehat.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from languagehat.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Prof. Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer offers ‘a radically different reading experience’ It was 29 B.C., two years into the reign of the emperor Augustus, when the Roman poet Vergil began writing his great epic, the Aeneid. Unlike the Odyssey and the Iliad, Vergilʼs response to the Homeric epics is not just that of an individual hero. Itʼs also a national origin story, said Prof. Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer “and that makes it a different kind of poem.” In the poem, Aeneas leads his followers west from Troy, which the Greeks have sacked, in search of somewhere to start a new city. Along the way, the gods especially Juno and Aeneasʼs mother, Venus throw both obstacles and aids in his path. Finally, the Trojans land in Italy and found a city where Rome will later stand. ....
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Book review: Revisit a classic with new translation of 'The Aeneid' fredericksburg.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from fredericksburg.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
How Augustus rebuilt Rome The collapse of the Roman republic, and the establishment amid its rubble of the rule of the Caesars, constitutes the primal political narrative of the West. In 49 BC, a system of government founded on the conviction that the only conceivable alternative to liberty was death spectacularly imploded. The claim of Julius Caesar, the greatest general of his day, to a primacy over his fellow citizens resulted first in civil war, and then – after he had crushed his domestic foes as he had previously crushed the various tribes of Gaul – in his assassination. Two more murderous bouts of civil war followed. Assorted warlords struggled for supremacy. ....