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In this dissertation I examine Vergil's use of laetus (and laetitia, laetor, and inlaetabilis) in the Aeneid ; for context, I also present the use of the laet- stem in earlier poets and in the i and Eclogues. The two basic uses of laetus in Latin literature indicate human emotio…

The Thesis analyses and evaluates how Gavin Douglas (Eneados, 1513) has refocused Virgil's Aeneid, principally by giving more emphasis to the serial particularity inherent in the story, loosening the narrative structure and involving the reader in its retelling. Chapter I pieces…

This dissertation juxtaposes Virgil's Aeneid with Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses in order to explore how epics, which question and upend our very ideas of civilization, represent a crisis in culture and anticipate new ways of imagining community. This juxtaposition, develop…