Louisiana State University LSU Digital Commons LSU Doctoral Dissertations Graduate School 2012 Virgil's shipwreck: how a Roman poet made and unmade the epic in the west Jesse Bryan Burchfield Russell Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College,
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[email protected]. VIRGIL’S SHIPWRECK: HOW A ROMAN POET MADE AND UNMADE THE EPIC IN THE WEST A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in The Interdepartmental Program in Comparative Literature By Jesse Bryan Burchfield Russell B.A., Franciscan University of Steubenville, 2004 M.A., Franciscan University of Steubenville, 2005 M.A., Catholic University of America, 2007 December 2012 Dedication For my Jennifer, Lavinia mea, and my parents, James Russell and Lynette Zwerneman ii Acknowledgements A dissertation is a communal effort, and I would not have been able to finish it without my shipmates. First of all, I would like to thank Dr.