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Exempla in Virgil’s Underworld

    Nicholas Horsfall

Wiener Studien 128/2015, pp. 63-68, 2015/10/15

Zeitschrift für Klassische Philologie, Patristik und lateinische Tradition

doi: 10.1553/wst128s63

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doi:10.1553/wst128



doi:10.1553/wst128s63


Abstract

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.