A tale of two Carthages : history and allusive topography in Virgil’s Libyan harbor (Aen. 1.159-69)
Although Virgil’s description of the Libyan harbor at <em>Aeneid</em> 1.159– 69 is generally thought to be a poetic invention, some readers in antiquity, according to Servius’s commentary, believed the harbor to be modeled after the port of Carthago Nova in southern Spain. This paper arg...
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| פורמט: | Journal article |
| שפה: | English |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
2015
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