Lethaeum ad fluvium
Mercury in the Aeneid
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4082250 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lee Fratantuono (0009-0002-1828-2678, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Issue | 99 |
| Pages | 295-310 |
| Publication date | 2015-11-27 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Pallas (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-0387 • E-ISSN: 2272-7639 |
| Publisher | OpenEdition (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.4000/pallas.3153 |
| OpenAlex | W2277090062 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 29 |
The significance of the god Mercury to the drama of the Virgilian Aeneid has not been fully appreciated. Careful consideration of the several appearances of the god in the epic reveals that Mercury is a key figure not only in the Virgilian evocation of the rebellion of the giants against Jupiter, but also in the development of the poet’s presentation of the triumph of the Italian over the Trojan in the final ethnic disposition of affairs in Latium, and that on the mortal plane the god has special significance to a more nuanced appreciation of the importance of the heroine Camilla in the events of the war in Italy
Art · Drama · EPIC · Evocation · Literature · Mercury (programming language · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · History · Philosophy
Lands and Peoples in Roman Poetry
The Speeches in Vergil's "Aeneid"
Vergil's Aeneid
Virgil's Aeneid
Birds, grandfathers, and neoteric sorcery in Aeneid 4.254 and 7.412
Virgil's Augustan Epic
Words and the Poet
Virgil the Partisan
The Swords of Aeneid 4
Umarried Dido
Aeneas and Mount Atlas
Tragic Daughter of Atlas
Dido, Aeneas, and Iulus
Oculos ad Moenia Torsit
Memory in Vergil's Aeneid
Virgil's Aeneid
Virgil's Gaze
Virgil's Homeric Lens
The Dido Episode and the Aeneid
A Companion to Vergil's Aeneid and its Tradition
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |