TY - BOOK ID - 14737903 TI - Virgil's Ascanius PY - 2017 VL - *131 SN - 9781107115392 9781316335840 9781107535695 1107115396 1107535697 1108232493 1108232418 1108232019 1316335844 1108232574 1108232973 1108232655 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Ascanius (Legendary character) KW - HISTORY / Ancient / General. KW - In literature. KW - Virgil. KW - Ascagne (Personnage légendaire) KW - In literature KW - Dans la littérature KW - Ascagne (Personnage légendaire) KW - Dans la littérature KW - Fiktive Gestalt. KW - HISTORY KW - Ancient KW - General. KW - Hagelsheimer, Hieronimus. KW - Vergilius Maro, Publius, KW - Aeneis (Virgil). KW - Ascanius UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:14737903 AB - 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, makes speeches, and even makes a joke. In this first book-length study of Virgil's Ascanius, Anne Rogerson demonstrates the importance of this character not just to the Augustan family tree but to the texture and the meaning of the Aeneid. As a figure of prophecy and a symbol both of hopes for the future and of present uncertainties, Ascanius is a fusion of epic and dynastic desires. Compelling close readings of the representation and reception of this understudied character throughout the Aeneid expose the unexpectedly childish qualities of Virgil's heroic epic. ER -