Walking through Elysium : Vergil's underworld and the poetics of tradition / edited by Bill Gladhill and Micah Young Myers.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gladhill, Bill, editor.

Myers, Micah Young, 1979- editor.

Series:

Phoenix. Supplementary volume ; 59.

Phoenix supplementary volumes ; 59

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Virgil. Aeneis--Liber 6.

Virgil.

Voyages to the otherworld in literature.

Aeneis (Virgil).

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Themes, motives.

Virgil--Influence.

Virgil--Themes, motives.

Physical Description:

vi, 302 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2020]

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.

Contents:

1 Into the Woods (Via Cuma 320, Bacoli) p. 14 / Alessandro Barchiesi

2 A Walk in Vergil's Footsteps: Statius on the Via Domitiana p. 31 / Emily Pillinger

3 In the Sibyl's Cave: Vergilian Prophecy and Mary Shelley's Last Man p. 62 / Maggie Kilgour

4 Exploring the Forests of Antiquity: The Golden Bough and Early Modern Spirituality p. 77 / Matteo Soranzo

5 Aeneas' Steps p. 94 / Miguel Herrero De Jáuregui

6 Vergil's Underworld and the Afterlife of Lovers and Love Poets p. 111 / Micah Young Myers

7 Vergilian Underworlds in Ovid p. 134 / Alison Keith

8 Mortem aliquid ultra est: Vergil's Underworld in Senecan Tragedy p. 153 / Bill Gladhill

9 Servius on Sinners and Punishments in Vergil's Underworld p. 172 / Fabio Stok

10 Paradise and Performance in Vergil's Underworld and Horace's Carmen Saeculare p. 187 / Lauren Curtis

11 Why Isn't Homer in Vergil's Underworld? - and Other Notable Absences p. 206 / Emily Gowers

12 The Silence of Aeneid 6 in Augustine's Confessions p. 224 / Jacob L. Mackey

13 Spiritualism as Textual Practice p. 241 / Grant Parker.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-287) and index.

Current Copyright Fee: GBP20.00 0.

Other Format:

Online version: Walking through Elysium.

ISBN:

1487505779

9781487505776

9781487532642

1487532644

OCLC:

1127092889