Revisiting Virgil's Heroes' Parade: An Apocalyptic Historical Review.
This paper reexamines the Heroes' Parade in Book 6 of Virgil's Aeneid through the lens of apocalyptic literature, specifically the 'historical apocalypse'. It seeks to reveal how Virgil recontextualizes common themes and motifs found within the apocalyptic genre to support Rome's imperial ideology....
| Published in: | Scripta Classica Israelica Vol. 44; pp. 57 - 73 |
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Israeli Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies
2025
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