Finding Italy: Travel, Nation, and Colonization in Vergil's Aeneid

by Kristopher Fletcher

Finding Italy explores the journey of the Romans' ancestor Aeneas and his fellow Trojans from their old home, Troy, to their new country, Italy, narrated in Vergil's epic poem Aeneid. K. F. B. Fletcher argues that a main narrative theme is patriotism, specifically the problem of how one comes to love one's new country. The various directions Aeneas receives throughout the first half of the poem are meant to create this love, explaining...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472052284
• ISBN13: 9780472052288
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.8"