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Walking through Elysium : Vergil's underworld and the poetics of tradition / edited by Bill Gladhill and Micah Young Myers.

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"Walking through Elysium stresses the subtle and intricate ways writers across time and space wove Vergil's underworld in Aeneid 6 into their works. These allusions operate on many levels, from the literary and political to the religious and spiritual. Aeneid 6 reshaped prior philosophical...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Gladhill, Bill (Editor), Myers, Micah Young, 1979- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2020]
Series:Phoenix. Supplementary volume ; 59.
Subjects:
Virgil > Influence.
Virgil > Themes, motives.
Virgil. > Aeneis. > Liber 6.
Voyages to the otherworld in literature.
Virgil.
Aeneis (Virgil)
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Themes, motives.
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Series Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contributors
  • Introduction
  • 1 Into the Woods (Via Cuma 320, Bacoli)
  • 2 A Walk in Vergil's Footsteps: Statius on the Via Domitiana
  • 3 In the Sibyl's Cave: Vergilian Prophecy and Mary Shelley's Last Man
  • 4 Exploring the Forests of Antiquity: The Golden Bough and Early Modern Spirituality
  • 5 Aeneas' Steps
  • 6 Vergil's Underworld and the Afterlife of Lovers and Love Poets
  • 7 Vergilian Underworlds in Ovid
  • 8 Mortem aliquid ultra est: Vergil's Underworld in Senecan Tragedy.
  • 9 Servius on Sinners and Punishments in Vergil's Underworld
  • 10 Paradise and Performance in Vergil's Underworld and Horace's Carmen Saeculare
  • 11 Why Isn't Homer in Vergil's Underworld?
  • and Other Notable Absences
  • 12 The Silence of Aeneid 6 in Augustine's Confessions
  • 13 Spiritualism as Textual Practice
  • Works Cited
  • Index.

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