Preface1 Introduction-Vulnerable Suspense 2Liminal Imagery in Context 2.1 Some Notions of Ritual and Liminal Theory2.2 Selected Critical Approaches to the Aeneid 2.3 Narratology, Vision, Space, Time, and Memory2.4 Intertextuality, Imagery, and Liminality in the Aeneid2.5 A Different Epic 2.6 The Liminal Approach and its Limitations 3 Diversions and the Journey Up-stream 3.1 The Short Proem-Toil, Hardship, and Problems 3.2 First Vista: The Meaning of Antenor 3.3 Criteria for Determining Liminal Symbolism 3.4 Second Vista: The Grove at the Mouth of the Tiber 4 The Problem of the City Walls 4.1 Sacredness, Liminality, and Symbolism of the City Walls4.2 Doomed Walls and Discord-Troy, Thebes, and Carthage 4.3 Third Vista: Hector, Venus, and the Walls of Troy 4.4 Ships, Walls, and the Horse 4.5 Fourth Vista: Venus, Mercury, and the Walls of Carthage 4.6 Fifth Vista: The Mothers on the Walls 5 Trying to Escape the Sea 5.1 Sixth Vista: The Storm at Sea 5.2 Seventh Vista: The Shore and the Cliff of Carthage 5.3 Eighth Vista: Shores, Prophecies, and the Elusive Walls 5.4 Ninth Vista: Hector's False Grave in False Troy 6 Liminal Spaces 6.1 Tenth Vista: The Body on the Shore 6.2 The Island of Sicily6.3 Thresholds 6.4 The Labyrinth 6.5 Temples as Liminal Junctions 6.6 The Cave of the Underworld 7 The Trojans in Liminality 7.1 Weariness, Estrangement, and Learning 7.2 Marginality, Identity, and Lack of Identity 7.3 Aeneas in Liminality 7.4 Dualities and Symbolic Twinship7.5 Strife and Reconciliation-Ending Liminality 8 Towards a New Golden Age8.1 Eleventh Vista: The Trees of Mater Idaea 8.2 The Gods and Liminality 8.3 Multiple Liminalities 8.4 Apotheosis 8.5 The Citadel of Heaven 8.6 The Ritual Cosmic Transition and its Symbolism 8.7 Jupiter's Fatum, Magna Mater, and the Golden Age Appendix: Liminal Symbols and ConceptsWorks Cited Index of Passages General Index List of Figures