TY  - BOOK
AU  - Barchiesi,Alessandro
AU  - Curtis,Lauren
AU  - Gladhill,Bill
AU  - Gowers,Emily
AU  - Herrero De Jáuregui,Miguel
AU  - Keith,Alison
AU  - Kilgour,Maggie
AU  - Mackey,Jacob L.
AU  - Myers,Micah Y.
AU  - Parker,Grant
AU  - Pillinger,Emily
AU  - Soranzo,Matteo
AU  - Stok,Fabio
AU  - Young Myers,Micah
TI  - Walking through Elysium: Vergil’s Underworld and the Poetics of Tradition 
T2  - Phoenix Supplementary Volumes
SN  - 9781487505776
AV  - PA6825 .W27 2020
U1  - 873/.01 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Toronto
PB  - University of Toronto Press
KW  - Voyages to the otherworld in literature
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Aeneid
KW  - Augustine
KW  - Christian
KW  - Ovid
KW  - Pagan
KW  - Romantic
KW  - Rome
KW  - Seneca
KW  - Shelley
KW  - Statius
KW  - Vergil
KW  - Virgil
KW  - classical literature
KW  - death
KW  - literary reception
KW  - poetry
KW  - spirituality
KW  - tradition
KW  - underworld
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Acknowledgments --; Contributors --; Introduction --; 1. Into the Woods (Via Cuma 320, Bacoli) --; 2. A Walk in Vergil’s Footsteps: Statius on the Via Domitiana --; 3. In the Sibyl’s Cave: Vergilian Prophecy and Mary Shelley’s Last Man --; 4. Exploring the Forests of Antiquity: The Golden Bough and Early Modern Spirituality --; 5. Aeneas’ Steps --; 6. Vergil’s Underworld and the Afterlife of Lovers and Love Poets --; 7. Vergilian Underworlds in Ovid --; 8. Mortem aliquid ultra est: Vergil’s Underworld in Senecan Tragedy --; 9. Servius on Sinners and Punishments in Vergil’s Underworld --; 10. Paradise and Performance in Vergil’s Underworld and Horace’s Carmen Saeculare --; 11. Why Isn’t Homer in Vergil’s Underworld? – and Other Notable Absences --; 12. The Silence of Aeneid 6 in Augustine’s Confessions --; 13. Spiritualism as Textual Practice --; Works Cited --; Index --; PHOENIX SUPPLEMENTARY VOLUMES; restricted access
N2  - 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. The essays in this volume speak to Vergil’s incorporation of and influence on literary representations of underworlds, souls, afterlives, prophecies, journeys, and spaces, from sacred and profane to wild and civilized, tracing the impact of Vergil’s underworld on authors such as Ovid, Seneca, Statius, Augustine, and Shelley, from Pagan and Christian traditions through Romantic and Spiritualist readings. Walking through Elysium asserts the deep and lasting influence of Vergil’s underworld from the moment of its publication to the present day
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