Exempla in Virgil's Underworld

In Aeneid 6, Hercules and Dionysus point towards the deification of Augustus; the mythological poets amply scattered through Elysium may be there to launch a sense that Virgil too will one day tread those very same meadows as a reward for his service as poet to the state. And the great Romans of the...

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Main Author: Horsfall, Nicholas 1946-2019 (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Österreichischen Akademie d. Wissenschaften [2015]
In: Wiener Studien
Year: 2015, Volume: 128, Pages: 63-68
IxTheo Classification:AG Religious life; material religion
BE Greco-Roman religions
TB Antiquity
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