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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Опубликовано в: :Wiener Studien
Главный автор: Horsfall, Nicholas 1946-2019 (Автор)
Формат: Электронный ресурс Статья
Язык:Английский
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Опубликовано: Österreichischen Akademie d. Wissenschaften [2015]
В: Wiener Studien
Год: 2015, Том: 128, Страницы: 63-68
Индексация IxTheo:AG Религиозная жизнь
BE Греко-римские религии
TB Античность
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Итог: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 ‘Heldenschau'? There as exempla to help persuade first Aeneas and secondly the Roman reader to shoulder the various burdens of the res publica.
ISSN:1813-3924
Второстепенные работы:Enthalten in: Wiener Studien
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1553/wst128s63