The Greeks and Trojans were locked in a bitter conflict for an entire decade, the former's perspective being committed to paper by many poets, chief among them Homer. Vergil imitated the Homeric style in his work, the Aeneid - commissioned by Roman Emperor August to legitimize himself. This is what confounds me: Vergil traces Roman lineage back to Troy. How can we reconcile this Trojan perspective with the allusions to Homer? Why were the Romans so eager to adopt Greek styles of writing despite the monumental, historical, mythical fued that was the Trojan War?
Reconcilable Differences: Greeks and Trojans in the Aeneid
Making Roman-ness in the Aeneid
An Interpretation of the Aeneid
Invasion in the Aeneid
Epic Gods, Imperial City
The Impact of Greek Art in Rome
Roman Literature: Translation, Metaphor & Empire
Cultural Fiction and Cultural Identity
Contesting Trojan Ancestry
Roman Sculpture and the Ethos of Emultation
Greek and Roman Art
Roman Attitude Toward Foreign Influence
Becoming Roman, Staying Greek
Greeks Under the Roman Empire
Greek and Roman Concepts of Power
Last Line of the Aeneid
The Achaemenides Episode in Virgil's Aeneid III
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