Alban kingship with his half-brother Silvius and by his persistent association with the Trojan past. The frustration and anxiety surrounding Ascanius reflect the frustration and anxiety of Virgil’s epic and contemporary Rome. Throughout the book Rogerson relies on solid, insightful, and original close reading of the Aeneid, enhanced by frequent recourse to allusion and occasionally to broader intertextuality. Virgil’s Ascanius is a methodologically conservative book, and it avoids explicit methodological and theoretical reflection. In a different book on the subject it would not have been unexpected to find, for example, a theoretical discussion of Roman childhood. Rogerson is certainly aware of work on Roman childhood, making occasional use of Néraudau (1984), Golden (1990), Rawson (2003), and Laes (2011), but she does not engage with them extensively. There are hints of another possible theoretical discussion in a few sentences on pages 11 and 12 about characterization in literature, but Rogerson moves on quickly while a footnote directs us to further reading. The detailed analysis of the ways in which characters within the poem appropriate the legends of Virgil’s ancient past might have inspired questions about the use of the ancient past in the construction of imagined communities, and in what ways uses of the past and uses of the future relate. Any of these discussions, however, would have seemed out of place in a book that does not aim to be theoretical, and what it aims to do it does very well. Virgil’s Ascanius adds a new focus to the scholarship on the ways in which the Aeneid emphasizes uncertainty and competing agendas. It is not a book with which many readers will disagree, which is, I think, both a virtue and a flaw. It is a substantial and original contribution to the study of the Aeneid, and one that scholars and students will find clear, useful, and illuminating.

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盗贼之间的荣誉：罗马和罗马晚期埃及的工匠、商人和协会 作者：Philip F. Venticinque

Alban 与他同父异母的兄弟 Silvius 以及他与特洛伊过去的持久联系。围绕阿斯卡尼乌斯的沮丧和焦虑反映了维吉尔史诗和当代罗马的沮丧和焦虑。在整本书中，罗杰森依赖于对埃涅阿斯纪的扎实、洞察力和原创性的仔细阅读，并通过频繁引用典故和偶尔更广泛的互文性来增强。Virgil 的 Ascanius 是一本方法论保守的书，它避免了明确的方法论和理论反思。例如，在另一本关于这个主题的书中找到对罗马童年的理论讨论也就不足为奇了。罗杰森当然知道关于罗马童年的工作，偶尔会使用 Néraudau (1984)、Golden (1990)、Rawson (2003) 和 Laes (2011)，但她并没有广泛地与他们接触。在第 11 页和第 12 页的几个关于文学特征的句子中暗示了另一个可能的理论讨论，但罗杰森迅速继续前进，同时脚注指导我们进一步阅读。对诗中人物对维吉尔古代历史传说的改编方式的详细分析可能激发了关于古代过去在想象社区建设中的使用的问题，以及过去的使用方式和未来的使用方式涉及。然而，这些讨论中的任何一个在一本不以理论为目标的书中似乎都是不合适的，它的目标是做它做得很好。维吉尔的阿斯卡尼乌斯（Ascanius）在埃涅阿斯纪强调不确定性和竞争议程的方式上为学术增添了新的焦点。这不是一本许多读者会不同意的书，我认为这既是优点也是缺点。这是对埃涅阿斯纪研究的实质性和原创性贡献，学者和学生会发现这一贡献清晰、有用且具有启发性。