Vergil's Aeneid and the Roman self : subject and nation in literary discourse

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Vergil's Aeneid and the Roman self : subject and nation in literary discourse

Yasmin Syed

University of Michigan Press, 2005

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Based on the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California

Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-268) and index

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Syed argues that the first century BC Latin poem had a significant impact on its Roman readers' sense of self as Romans, and articulated Roman identity for them through the readers' identification with and differentiation from its fictional characters. She considers identity at both the individual level of the subject and the collective level of et

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