Author

Publication

1969 - Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J, New Jersey

Language

English

Word Count

69,500 words, Guess

Page Count

278 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing7648183
  • Goodreads1756790

Classifications

  • DDC398.22
  • LCCBL820.A34 G3

Description

This book is a series of studies about the Trojan legend of Rome and its background. The Roman belief in Trojan descent, which found its best-known expression in Vergil's Aeneid, was so Roman a phenomenon that it would be difficult to find a good modern analogy. -- Preface.

Subjects

Topics

LegendsLegends, italyLegends -- RomeLegends -- Italy -- SicilyAeneas (Legendary character)

Series Statement

  • Princeton monographs in art and archaeology,

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