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A poetic rewriting of memory and history that justifies imperial violence as duty or necessity.
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political propaganda
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Jiang treats Dido's curse as the Aeneid's political explanation for Rome's hundred-year conflict with Carthage and eventual destruction of Carthaginian civilization.
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"You, sun, whose fires scan all works of the earth. And you, Juno, the witness, midwife to my agonies. He came greeted by nightly..."
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"And you, my Tyrians, harry with hatred all his line, his race to come. Make that offering to my ashes. Send it down below...."
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"Okay, endless war. Alright, so the Aeneid is first and foremost political propaganda. Alright? And so, Rome's epic war is with Carthage. Rome and..."
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"Okay? So it's basically inversion. So that's what the Aeneid is doing. It's inverting Homer, but it's also inverting history to serve the political..."
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"...misreading the Aenead. First and foremost, it is a work of political propaganda. So how has Aeneas changed as a person? Well, the change..."
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