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Title Walking through Elysium : Vergil's underworld and the poetics of tradition / edited by Bill Gladhill and Micah Young Myers
Published Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2020]
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Description 1 online resource (vi, 302 pages)
Series Phoenix supplementary volumes ; 59
Phoenix. Supplementary volume ; 59.
Contents Introduction / Bill Gladhill and Micah Young Myers -- Into the Woods (Via Cuma 320, Bacoli) / Alessandro Barchiesi -- Walk in Vergil's Footsteps: Statius on the Via Domitiana / Emily Pillinger -- In the Sibyl's Cave: Vergilian Prophecy and Mary Shelley's Last Man / Maggie Kilgour -- Exploring the Forests of Antiquity: The Golden Bough and Early Modern Spirituality / Matteo Soranzo -- Aeneas' Steps / Miguel Herrero de Jáuregui -- Vergil's Underworld and the Afterlife of Lovers and Love Poets / Micah Young Myers -- Vergilian Underworlds in Ovid / Alison Keith -- Mortem aliquid ultra est: Vergil's Underworld in Senecan Tragedy / Bill Gladhill -- Servius on Sinners and Punishments in Vergil's Underworld / Fabio Stok --10. Paradise and Performance in Vergil's Underworld and Horace's Carmen Saeculare / Lauren Curtis -- Why Isn't Homer in Vergil's Underworld? And Other Notable Absences / Emily Gowers -- Silence of Aeneid 6 in Augustine's Confessions / Jacob L. Mackey -- Spiritualism as Textual Practice / Grant Parker
Summary "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, and poetic traditions of underworld descents, while offering a universalizing account of the spiritual that could accommodate prior as well as emerging religious and philosophical systems. Vergil's underworld became an archetype, a model flexible enough to be employed across genres, and periods, and among differing cultural and religious contexts. The essays in this volume speak to Vergil's incorporation of and influence on literary representations of underworlds, souls, afterlives, prophecies, journeys, and spaces, from sacred and profane to wild and civilized, tracing the impact of Vergil's underworld on authors such as Ovid, Seneca, Statius, Augustine, and Shelley, from Pagan and Christian traditions through Romantic and Spiritualist readings. Walking through Elysium asserts the deep and lasting influence of Vergil's underworld from the moment of its publication to the present day."-- Provided by publisher
Analysis Aeneid
Augustine
Christian
Ovid
Pagan
Romantic
Rome
Seneca
Shelley
Statius
Vergil
Virgil
classical literature
death
literary reception
poetry
spirituality
tradition
underworld
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Virgil -- Influence
Virgil -- Themes, motives
Virgil. Aeneis. Liber 6.
Virgil
SUBJECT Aeneis (Virgil) fast
Subject Voyages to the otherworld in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Themes, motives
Voyages to the otherworld in literature
Genre/Form Electronic books
Literary criticism
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
Form Electronic book
Author Gladhill, Bill, editor
Myers, Micah Young, 1979- editor.
ISBN 9781487532642
1487532644
9781487532659
1487532652
Other Titles Vergil's underworld and the poetics of tradition