Constructing Ethnicity in Miniature: Cultural Memory in the World of the Aeneid
By Tedd Wimperis
Who Framed the acer Halaesus? The Unspoken Memory of the Faliscan People in Virgil's Aeneid
By Anna Maria Cimino
The aim of my paper is to analyze the absent presence of the Faliscans in the Aeneid, starting with the problematic representation of their eponym hero, the acer Halaesus (Aen. 10.411).
What's Past is Prologue: Roman Identity and the Trojan Cycle in the Aeneid
By Jennifer Weintritt
In the Aeneid, a change in names indicates a significant historical shift. Long before Juno’s reconciliation, Jupiter remarks that Ascanius, “once called Ilus, while Troy still stood sovereign, is now Iulus” (1.267-8). Likewise, in Book 6, name change encapsulates the rise and fall of cities: Gabii, Fidenae, and the like “at some time will be names, but now they are lands without names” (6.773-6). For Vergil’s readers, these Alban cities, eclipsed by Rome, are once again nameless (Feeney). So too, nomenclature marks the end of an era as it subsides for another in Book 12.
Whose Fatherland? The Use of patria and patrius in Vergil
By Kevin Moch
About to abandon Dido in Carthage, Aeneas famously justifies his departure by claiming Italy to be the fatherland he seeks: hic amor, haec patria est (Aen. 4.347). This passage, as well as Vergil’s description of Actium in Aeneid 8, paint a picture of Italy as a unified political entity in the poem, a literary equivalent of the happily pledged tota Italia of Augustus’ Res Gestae.