Leaving Troy and Creusa: Reflections on Aeneas’ flight

• Luca Grillo ^[1]
  1. [1] Amherst College

     Amherst College

     Town of Amherst, Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: Classical journal, ISSN 0009-8353, Vol. 106, Nº 1, 2010, págs. 43-68
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Virgil shapes the episode of Creusa’s disappearance in Aen. 2 after the models of Orpheus and Eurydice in Georgics 4 and of Hector and Andromache in Iliad 6. Comparison with these husband-wife scenes challenges a straightforward understanding of Aeneas’ pietas. While displaying the contradictions of Aeneas’ character, the loss of Creusa emphasizes his forgetfulness, which is consistently present throughout Aen. 2.