Apollonius and the End of the Aeneid

Bibliographic Data

ID9338554
AuthorsAdrian Kelly (0000-0002-5053-7397, corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume64
Issue2
Pages642-648
Publication date2014-11-20
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Classical Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0009-8388 • E-ISSN: 1471-6844
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0009838814000214
OpenAlexW2321825606
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited36

The death of Turnus is one of the Aeneid 's most controversial and variously interpreted episodes – anything from the triumphant vindication of Aeneas and the Roman future, to the poet's last, resounding plaint against Augustan totalitarianism, with all the more nuanced shades of opinion in between. Virgilian scholarship has recently become tired of the opposition between ‘optimist’ and ‘pessimist’ perspectives, but one piece of potentially important evidence has not found its way into the argument. As often, it is a matter of intertexts, and it begins, unsurprisingly, with the Iliad

Argument (complex analysis · Art · Epistemology · Literature · Opposition (politics · Pessimism · Political science · Scholarship · Classical Antiquity Studies · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · Law · Organic Chemistry Synthesis Methods · Philosophy

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