Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity

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A major new interpretation of Vergil's epic poem as a struggle between two incompatible versions of the Homeric hero This compelling book offers an entirely new way of understanding the Aeneid. Many scholars regard Vergil's poem as an attempt to combine Homer's Iliad and Odyssey into a single epic. Joseph Farrell challenges this view, revealing

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"A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year"
"Winner of the McKay Award, Vergilian Society"
"Thoroughly researched. . . . Highly recommended." * Choice Reviews *
"A highly engaging, well-written, and thought-provoking take on the Aeneid, which will become an indispensable guide both to Virgils text and to the long and rich tradition of scholarship on the poem."---Anke Walter, Greece and Rome

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Joseph Farrell is the M. Mark and Esther K. Watkins Professor in the Humanities and professor of classical studies at the University of Pennsylvania. His many books include Ennius' "Annals": Poetry and History and A Companion to Vergils "Aeneid" and Its Tradition.