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

Walking through Elysium traces Vergil’s influence on literary representations of underworlds, souls, afterlives, prophecies, journeys, and spaces, from sacred and profane to wild and civilized.

List of contents

Introduction: Bill Gladhill, McGill University, and Micah Myers, Kenyon College
1. Into the Woods       
Alessandro Barchiesi, New York University
2. Statius’ Walking in Vergil’s Footsteps     
Emily Pillinger, King’s College London
3. The Sibyl’s Cave and Visions of the Future   
Maggie Kilgour, McGill University
4. Exploring the Forests of Antiquity: The Golden Bough in Early Modern Literature    
Matteo Soranzo, McGill University
5. Aeneas’ Steps       
Miguel Herrero de Jáuregui, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
6. Vergil’s Underworld and the Afterlife of Love Poets   
Micah Y. Myers, Kenyon College
7. Vergilian Underworlds in Ovid      
Alison Keith, University of Toronto
8. Mortem aliquid ultra est: Vergil’s Underworld in Senecan Tragedy    
Bill Gladhill, McGill University
9. Servius on Sinners and Punishments in Vergil’s Underworld 
Fabio Stok, University of Rome Tor Vergata
10. Paradise and Performance in Vergil’s Underworld and Horace’s Carmen Saeculare
Lauren Curtis, Bard College
11. Why isn’t Homer in Virgil’s Underworld? - and Other Notable Absences      
Emily Gowers, University of Cambridge
12. The Silence of Aeneid 6 in Augustine’s Confessions 
Jacob L. Mackey, Occidental College
13. Spiritualism as Textual Practice    
Grant Parker, Stanford University

About the author

Edited by Bill Gladhill and Micah Young Myers

Summary

Walking through Elysium traces Vergil’s influence on literary representations of underworlds, souls, afterlives, prophecies, journeys, and spaces, from sacred and profane to wild and civilized.

Product details

• Authors: Bill (EDT)/ Myers Gladhill, Bill Myers Gladhill
• Assisted by: Bill Gladhill (Editor), Micah Y Myers (Editor), Micah Y. Myers (Editor), Micah Young Myers (Editor)
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9781487505776
• ISBN: 978-1-4875-0577-6
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Phoenix Supplementary Volumes
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Theologie, Texte: Antike und Mittelalter, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, RELIGION / Theology, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Literature - Classics / Criticism