TY  - BOOK
AU  - Seider,Aaron M.
TI  - Memory in Vergil's Aeneid: Creating the Past 
SN  - 9781139382847 (ebook)
AV  - PA6825 .S47 2013
U1  - 873/.01 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Memory in literature
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016)
N2  - Tracing the path from Troy's destruction to Rome's foundation, the Aeneid explores the transition between past and future. As the Trojans struggle to found a new city and the narrator sings of his audience's often-painful history, memory becomes intertwined with a crucial leitmotif: the challenge of being part of a group that survives violence and destruction only to face the daunting task of remembering what was lost. This book offers a new reading of the Aeneid that engages with critical work on memory and questions the prevailing view that Aeneas must forget his disastrous history in order to escape from a cycle of loss. Considering crucial scenes such as Aeneas' reconstruction of Celaeno's prophecy and his slaying of Turnus, this book demonstrates that memory in the Aeneid is a reconstructive and dynamic process, one that offers a social and narrative mechanism for integrating a traumatic past with an uncertain future
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139382847
ER  -