Pavlock, for instance, asserts that the inter-textual link with Medea evokes the ‘problematic female sexuality and social chaos’ exemplified by Aeneas’ affair with Dido, Amata’s mirus amor for Turnus ( Aeneid 7.57) and her ensuing Bacchic rampage with the matres Latinae ( Aeneid 7.373-405). Nor, according to this approach, does Erato’s amatory influence pertain only to the emerging ‘love triangle’ between Aeneas, Lavinia, and Turnus.
#Et si fata deum full#
Thematic, because the erotic Muse’s power over ἀδμῆτας παρθενικάς at Argonautica 3.3-5 foreshadows Lavinia’s description at Aeneid 7.53: iam matura uiro, iam plenis nubilis annis (now ripe for a husband, now fit with full years to wed). Etymological, because at Argonautica 3.5, the ἐπήρατον οὔνομα is explicitly joined to Erato. Scholars stressing the erotic aspect of Virgil’s Muse argue that the Apollonian inter-text encodes the etymological and thematic justifications for the poet’s choice. The echo’s significance, however, has proven contentious. Maidens to you also the name of love is joined.Īs all agree, the correspondence between Apollonius’ Εἰ δ’ ἄγε νῦν Ἐρατώ and Virgil’s Nunc age… Erato is too exact to be coincidental. Of Cypris, and with your love-cares you charm unwed
Next how Jason brought back the fleece to Iolcus Others argue that, on the contrary, the erotic Muse is a fitting patroness for the horrida bella of Aeneid 7-12 because, as Williams most succinctly puts it, ‘the whole conflict about to be described arises from Turnus’ refusal to give up his bride Lavinia to the Trojan stranger.’ Ĭome now, Erato, stand by my side, and tell me 1.24.3, the assignment of provinces to the Muses ‘was still vague’ among Roman poets until after the Augustan period. Those who follow Servius in denying an erotic aspect to Virgil’s Muse do so on the grounds that, as Nisbet and Hubbard comment on Horace, C.
#Et si fata deum pro#
Servius auctus theorizes Virgil sane Erato uel pro Calliope uel pro qualicumque Musa posuit (surely put down Erato either for Calliope or for some other Muse), and succeeding generations of scholars have tended to frame their arguments in response to this hypothesis. Why, in the ‘Iliadic’ context of Aeneid 7-12, does Virgil invoke the Muse traditionally associated with erotic poetry? Puzzlement over the poet’s source of inspiration began early. A higher order grows before me Ĭonfronted with these lines, the poem’s critics have been led to an overwhelming question.
Of the Tuscan host, of all Hesperia underĪrms I shall tell. Of combats and kings driven to death by anger, Shores, and recall the first beginnings of battle.
When the foreign fleet first beached on Ausonian The times, and the state of things in ancient Latium, Come now, Erato, and I shall relate the kings,
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