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Once more unto the breach: Virgil’s Arae and the treaty of Philinus
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Giusti, Elena (2014) Once more unto the breach: Virgil’s Arae and the treaty of Philinus. Studi Italiani di Filologica Classica, 107 (1). pp. 61-79. doi:doi: 10.1400/232802 ISSN 0039-2987.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1400/232802
Abstract
At A. 1.109-10 the Servian and DServian scholia refer Virgil’s reference to the Arae to a mysterious treaty between Rome and Carthage which may be identified with the so-called treaty of Philinus, a treaty whose existence is still very much debated by scholars and whose understanding was vital for the interpretation of the outbreak of the First Punic War. This paper analyses the historical evidence for the existence of the Philinus treaty and argues that Virgil’s Arae passage works as a sort of peephole from the mythical narrative of the Trojans into the historical future of the Romans. Through the eyes of Juno, who is conscious of the events of the three Punic wars, the first Roman military navy overlaps with the Trojan fleet, and Aeneas is caught sailing exactly in those waters which, according to the treaty of Philinus, were more than off-limits to the Romans.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PA Classical philology | ||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > Classics and Ancient History | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Studi Italiani di Filologica Classica | ||||||
Publisher: | Le Monnier Firenze | ||||||
ISSN: | 0039-2987 | ||||||
Official Date: | 2014 | ||||||
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Volume: | 107 | ||||||
Number: | 1 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 61-79 | ||||||
DOI: | doi: 10.1400/232802 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 21 November 2017 |
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