Imagining the Future in the Aeneid
by
Anne Rogerson
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Ascanius is the most prominent child hero in Virgil's Aeneid. He accompanies his father from Troy to Italy and is present from the first book of the epic to the last; he is destined to found the city of Alba Longa and the Julian family to which Caesar and Augustus both belonged; and he hunts, fights,...