Walking through Elysium : : Vergil’s Underworld and the Poetics of Tradition / / ed. by Micah Young Myers, Bill Gladhill.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 English
• MitwirkendeR: Barchiesi, Alessandro,; Curtis, Lauren,; Gladhill, Bill,; Gowers, Emily,; Herrero De Jáuregui, Miguel,; Keith, Alison,; Kilgour, Maggie,; Mackey, Jacob L.,; Parker, Grant,; Pillinger, Emily,; Soranzo, Matteo,; Stok, Fabio,; Young Myers, Micah,
• HerausgeberIn: Gladhill, Bill,; Myers, Micah Young,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Phoenix Supplementary Volumes
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)

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, religious...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• 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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