Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity

by Joseph Farrell

Book Overview

A major new interpretation of Vergil's epic poem as a struggle between two incompatible versions of the Homeric hero

This compelling book offers an entirely new way of understanding the Aeneid. Many scholars regard Vergil's poem as an attempt to combine Homer's Iliad and Odyssey into a single epic. Joseph Farrell challenges this view, revealing how the Aeneid stages an epic contest to determine which kind...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691221251
• ISBN13: 9780691221250
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"