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Walking Through Elysium: Vergil's Underworld and the Poetics of Tradition

Walking Through Elysium: Vergil's Underworld and the Poetics of Tradition

Gladhill, Bill
Myers, Micah Y.

Hardcover

Series: Phoenix Supplementary Volumes

PhilosophyLiterary CriticismReligion General

ISBN10: 1487505779
ISBN13: 9781487505776
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: Apr 6 2020
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.40
Height: 1.30 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

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.

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