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Competing Commemorations: Apostrophes of the Dead in the Aeneid
This article argues that a series of apostrophes in the Aeneid's second half explores the challenging dynamics of establishing a dominant social memory. In these apostrophes the narrator addresses several characters on the threshold of death, and each time, he attempts to dictate how they will be remembered by his audience. Yet these narratival exclamations contrast with the characters' competing commemorations of the dead, a juxtaposition which undermines the narrator's seemingly authoritative memorials. Through these various apostrophes, Vergil foregrounds a paradoxical tension within the Aeneid between the need to move forward and the provisional nature of any sense of closure.
期刊介绍:
Founded in 1880, American Journal of Philology (AJP) has helped to shape American classical scholarship. Today, the Journal has achieved worldwide recognition as a forum for international exchange among classicists and philologists by publishing original research in classical literature, philology, linguistics, history, society, religion, philosophy, and cultural and material studies. Book review sections are featured in every issue. AJP is open to a wide variety of contemporary and interdisciplinary approaches, including literary interpretation and theory, historical investigation, and textual criticism.