The Divinization of Aeneas in Lazio: From a Missing Hero to Pater Indiges
The deification of Aeneas is the aspect of a myth with several temporal layers that are recorded in the literature of the Principate and especially in the Aeneid. We propose in this paper a mapping of this issue - and the epithet itself, Indiges - in the Greek and Latin authors previous to Virgil as...
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Centro de Estudios Históricos Profesor Carlos S. A. Segreti
2015
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/anuarioceh/article/view/21420 |
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| Sumario: | The deification of Aeneas is the aspect of a myth with several temporal layers that are recorded in the literature of the Principate and especially in the Aeneid. We propose in this paper a mapping of this issue - and the epithet itself, Indiges - in the Greek and Latin authors previous to Virgil as well as in the archaeological documentation, given their relation to the topography of the ancient Lazio. The article is a description of the apotheosis from the sources listed and an assessment of the question of what has been studied about. Well before the Iulii Caesaris inserted themselves in the family tree of this hero, claiming descendancy from Ascanio / Iulo, several indications suggest the existence of a cult of Aeneas as the founder of Lavinium. Through the testimony of Cato, Cassius Hemina and more specifically of Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Livy, we know that the son of Venus and Anchises received a specific kind of worship that approached him to the chthonic deities and linked him to a possible heroon /cenotaph. |
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