Disdain for Amor habendi in Aeneid 8: Aeneas in Times of Evander
In Aeneid 8, Aeneas visits Pallanteum to ask Evander for help in the war. However, before receiving Evander’s help, Aeneas will have to participate in a Herculean ritual and listen to the king’s recounting of the region’s history, in which both his actions and his kingdom embody poverty as a virtue...
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Universidad Nacional del Nordeste. Facultad de Humandiades. Instituto de Letras
2024
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| Sumario: | In Aeneid 8, Aeneas visits Pallanteum to ask Evander for help in the war. However, before receiving Evander’s help, Aeneas will have to participate in a Herculean ritual and listen to the king’s recounting of the region’s history, in which both his actions and his kingdom embody poverty as a virtue –standing in opposition to amor habendi, the cause of the Golden Age’s decline, as well as to Oriental luxury. The aim of my paper is to analyze the episodes in which Evander or his kingdom are characterized as humble or poor in this Book. I argue that Evander promotes a vision of the Golden Age rooted in austerity and self-sufficiency, in contrast to the greed and excess depicted in other episodes of the Georgics and the Aeneid. |
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