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Playful, popular visions of Troy and Carthage, backdrops to the Iliad and Aeneid's epic narratives, shine the spotlight on antiquity's starring role in nineteenth-century culture. This is the story of how these ruined cities inspired bold reconstructions of the Trojan War and its aftermath, how archaeological discoveries in the Troad and North Africa sparked dramatic debates, and how their ruins were exploited to conceptualise problematic relationships between past, present and future. Rachel Bryant Davies breaks new ground in the afterlife of classical antiquity by revealing more complex and less constrained interaction with classical knowledge across a broader social spectrum than yet understood, drawing upon methodological developments from disciplines such as history of science and theatre history in order to do so. She also develops a thorough critical framework for understanding classical burlesque and engages in in-depth analysis of a toy-theatre production.
English literature --- Trojan War --- Civilization, Classical --- History and criticism. --- Literature and the war. --- Classical influences. --- Troy (Extinct city) --- Carthage (Extinct city) --- Carthage (Ancient city) --- Carthago (Extinct city) --- Kart Hadasht (Extinct city) --- Qarțājannah (Extinct city) --- Tunisia --- In literature. --- Antiquities
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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.
Epic poetry, Latin --- History and criticism. --- Virgil. --- Carthage (Extinct city) --- Rome --- In literature. --- History --- History and criticism --- Carthage (Ancient city) --- Carthago (Extinct city) --- Kart Hadasht (Extinct city) --- Qarțājannah (Extinct city) --- Tunisia --- Antiquities --- E-books --- Epic poetry, Latin. --- Literature. --- Aeneis (Virgil). --- HISTORY / Ancient / General
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