Virgil’s Divine Antiquities: Varro in the Aeneid

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Articolo

Rivista

AEVUM ANTIQUUM

Fascicolo

AEVUM ANTIQUUM - 2020 - 20

Titolo

Virgil’s Divine Antiquities: Varro in the Aeneid

Autore

Fiachra Mac Góráin

Editore

Vita e Pensiero

Formato

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Online da

10-2021

Doi

10.26350/020747_000068

Issn

1121-8932 (stampa) | 1827-7861 (digitale)

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Virgil reflects knowledge of Varro’s Divine Antiquities (Antiquitates rerum divinarum) in the Aeneid. Virgil responded to and transformed Varronian material, and related it to his Homeric framework and the other literary traditions that he used. This article gives an overview of the relations between the Aeneid and Varro’s Divine Antiquities, covering the following topics: antiquarianism in the Aeneid; antiquarian prequels between myth and history; the politics of antiquarianism; the Varronian and Samothracian origins of Virgil’s penates; and the Aeneid’s tripartite theology.