Classics Faculty Work

Title

Apollo in the Aeneid

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2017

Publication Title

Eirene. Studia Graeca et Latina

Volume Number

53

Issue Number

1-2

Abstract

The appearances of the god Apollo in Virgil’s Aeneid have been studied with profit as individual episodes, but rarely with attention to the progress of the poet’s employment of the god in his narrative. This paper endeavors to examine all the references to Apollo in the poem, with a view to demonstrating that the god who presided over Octavian’s victory at Actium is employed by Virgil as a key figure in his account of how Rome will ultimately be Italian and not Trojan in culture and mores.

ISSN

0046-1628

First Page

169

Last Page

198

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