Aeneas, Sicily, and Rome
By: by G. Karl Galinsky.
Series: Princeton monographs in art and archaeology,; 40
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1969
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
Subjects: Aeneas (Legendary character); Legends -- Italy -- Sicily; Legends -- Rome
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.