She is the author of Greek Tragedy in Vergil's Aeneid: Ritual, Empire, and Intertext (Cambridge University Press 2009) and Brides, Mourners, Bacchae: Women's rituals in Roman Literature (Johns Hopkins ...

This mythology is enshrined in Rome’s epic poem, Virgil’s Aeneid (19 BC), written to curry ... It is because he is a Roman who absorbed his heritage from infancy, the way Romulus and Remus ...