Between Troy and Rome
Denis Feeney: Trojan Glamour, 15 June 2017
Virgil’s Ascanius: Imagining the Future in the ‘Aeneid’
by Anne Rogerson.
Cambridge, 246 pp., £75, January 2017,978 1 107 11539 2 Show More
by Anne Rogerson.
Cambridge, 246 pp., £75, January 2017,
“... Who was this son? What did he represent? What was his legacy? In her illuminating book, Anne Rogerson focuses on Ascanius as a figure whose role in the chain of transmission and inheritance deserves more attention than it has so far received. In Virgil’s day he acquired a new importance, because the man who ruled the empire after the ... ”
