Carthage in Virgil's Aeneid: Staging the Enemy under AugustusCover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations, editions and translations -- Introduction: Tractatio, Re-tractatio, Revisionist History -- How (Not) to Handle History: Horace's Ode to Pollio -- Why Should Hannibal Wear Boots? -- Staging the Enemy under Augustus -- Chapter 1 Carthaginian Constructions, since the Middle Republic -- 1.1 Barbarians at the Gates -- 1.2 Augustan Barbarians -- 1.3 Barbarian Carthaginians? -- 1.4 The Enemy on Stage -- 1.5 Plautus' Poenulus and the Mirror of the Enemy -- Chapter 2 Polarity and Analogy in Virgil's Carthage -- 2.1 Virgil's Barbarian Theatre -- 2.2 Persian Carthaginians -- 2.2.1 First Encounters -- 2.2.2 Symbolic Affinities -- 2.2.3 Polygamous and Incestuous Bonds -- 2.3 Persian Dido: The Medea Intertext -- 2.3.1 Colchian Medea -- 2.3.2 Corinthian Medea -- 2.3.3 Athenian/Persian Medea -- 2.4 Trojan Carthaginians -- 2.4.1 Stasis -- 2.4.2 Teucrian Carthaginians -- 2.4.3 Phoenician Carthaginians -- Chapter 3 Virgil's Revisionist Epic and Livy's Revisionist History -- 3.1 Virgil's and Livy's Linguistic Turn on the Hannibalic War -- 3.2 The Historian and the Poet -- 3.3 The Poet: Fama and the Cause in Virgil's Carthage -- 3.4 The Historian: Fama and the Pretext in Livy 21 -- 3.5 Conclusion -- Chapter 4 Virgil's Punic/Civil Wars as Unspeakable -- 4.1 Covering up the Wars -- 4.2 Framing the Wars -- 4.3 The First Punic War - or Bellum Punicum -- 4.4 The Second Punic War - Dido in the Light of Ennius Livy -- 4.4.1 Dido's Curse -- 4.4.2 Dido and Hannibal -- 4.4.3 Dido and Sophoniba -- 4.5 The Capture of Carthage and Rome's Eternal Triumph -- 4.5.1 Polybius' Anakyklosis -- 4.5.2 Pythagoras' Anakyklosis -- 4.5.3 Urbs Capta vs. Urbs Aeterna -- 4.5.4 The End is the Beginning is the End |
Contents
Carthaginian Constructions since | 22 |
Polarity and Analogy in Virgils Carthage | 88 |
Virgils Revisionist Epic and Livys Revisionist | 148 |
Virgils PunicCivil Wars as Unspeakable | 199 |
All the Perfumes of Arabia | 280 |
Bibliography | 286 |
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