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Published in 1976 by University of California Press, the book presents an interpretation of the Aeneid, an epic by the Roman poet Vergil. Claiming to abandon previously dominant historical-political reading, Johnson argues that the poem is at its heart concerned with the darkness of the human condition .
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Aeneas Flees Burning Troy, by Federico Barocci (1598). Galleria Borghese, Rome, Italy Map of Aeneas' fictional journey. The Aeneid (/ ɪ ˈ n iː ɪ d / ih-NEE-id; Latin: Aenēĭs [ae̯ˈneːɪs] or [ˈae̯neɪs]) is a Latin epic poem that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who fled the fall of Troy and travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans.
The Trojans sailed the sea and landed in Sicily, where King Acest ruled.The Sicilians received them hospitably. Aeneas decided to hold a wake for his father Anchises.During the Trojan feast and games, Juno sent her maid to earth, who persuaded the Trojan women to burn the boats.
Laocoön and His Sons sculpture shows them being attacked by sea serpents. As related in the Aeneid, after a nine-year war on the beaches of Troy between the Danaans (Greeks from the mainland) and the Trojans, the Greek seer Calchas induces the leaders of the Greek army to win the war by means of subterfuge: build a huge wooden horse and sail away from Troy as if in defeat—leaving the horse ...
Umbro is a valorous (fortissimus) warrior-priest of the Marruvians that appears in Book 7 of Virgil's Aeneid and his role has received significant academic coverage. [1] Dinter reports several interpretations of his role. [ 2 ]
This is for the mythical allies of Aeneas. For the story written about them by Virgil, see Aeneid. In Roman mythology, the Aeneads (Ancient Greek: Αἰνειάδαι) were the friends, family and companions of Aeneas, with whom they fled from Troy after the Trojan War.
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