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The Aeneas-legend and the Aeneid
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Virgil’s own perception of the history and transmission of the story of Aeneas has been almost completely ignored. Given the general neglect of the question of Virgil’s prose sources, that becomes a little more easily understandable. This paper does not seek to weigh anew Virgil’s debts in detail to Cato, the annalists, and Varro, for example, but rather to explore how the development of the Aeneas-legend and the various strands and stages within that development are reflected within the epic. The development of the legend of Aeneas, so heavily politicized from a very early date, had left Virgil with prodigious problems of reorganization and justification.
Title: The Aeneas-legend and the Aeneid
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Virgil’s own perception of the history and transmission of the story of Aeneas has been almost completely ignored.
Given the general neglect of the question of Virgil’s prose sources, that becomes a little more easily understandable.
This paper does not seek to weigh anew Virgil’s debts in detail to Cato, the annalists, and Varro, for example, but rather to explore how the development of the Aeneas-legend and the various strands and stages within that development are reflected within the epic.
The development of the legend of Aeneas, so heavily politicized from a very early date, had left Virgil with prodigious problems of reorganization and justification.
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