Aeneas

"Aeneas" discovers in the central character of Vergil’s "Aeneid" an Aeneas for an age of liquid modernity, a hero who vanishes into the multiple roles that he fails, in the end, to negotiate. His choices, silences, tears, and anger reveal a complex figure whose struggles to preserve his Trojan pietas leave him victor, vanquished, and victim in the civil wars of his own soul. Forthcoming from University of Michigan Press July 2021.