Hexameter Aesthetics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23656994 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sander M Goldberg (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Pages | 83-110 |
| Publication date | 1995-03-23 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Epic in Republican Rome (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University PressNew York, NY (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oso/9780195093728.003.0004 |
| OpenAlex | W4388382014 |
| ISBN | 9780195093728 |
| Language | EN |
When Aeneas and his men land at Cumae, the Sibyl instructs them to provide proper burial for their shipmate Misenus. They promptly set off to gather timber for a funeral pyre. This description owes a double debt: a remote one to Homer, who described the felling of oaks for the funeral pyre of Patroclus (II. 23.114-20), and a nearer debt to Ennius, whose Roman soldiers brought down a more varied forest at Heraclea to fuel a pyre for casualties of the battle there. Vergil recalls Ennius through the borrowing of significant details, the strategic placement of key words, and more generally through his greater interest in the trees than the axmen.
Aesthetics · Ancient history · Art · Battle · Business · Computer security · Debt · Felling · Geography · Key (lock) · Classical Antiquity Studies · Computer Science · Forestry · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · History
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |