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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Published in:Wiener Studien
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
RelBib Classification:AG Religious life; material religion
BE Greco-Roman religions
TB Antiquity
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Summary: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
Contains:Enthalten in: Wiener Studien
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1553/wst128s63