Troy, Italy, and the Underworld (Lucan, 9, 964–999)

Roč.17,č.1(2012)

Gergő Gellérfi

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http://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/118207

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Julius Caesar, one of the protagonists of Lucan's Pharsalia, disappears from the scene for a long time after the Battle of Pharsalus. He reappears at the end of Book 9, when he pays a visit to the ruined city of Troy. The function and the source of this historically unsupported scene are both worth examining. Earlier research disclosed as the literary source of the Troy scene the episode in Aeneid Book 8, when Evander shows Aeneas the future site of Rome. While fully accepting that, I would like to present another possible source that might have as much effect on the constructing of Lucan's Troy as the Evander-scene: the katabasis in Book 6 of the Aeneid. Definite parallelisms can be identified between the two scenes on both motivic and textual levels. Furthermore, the connection between these three scenes can be proved on the level of content, since by examining them together the real purpose of the Troy scene can be decoded: Lucan predicts Rome's destruction in this episode.

Klíčová slova:
Lucan; Pharsalia; Caesar; Troy; Aeneid; katabasis; Civil War

Stránky:
51–61
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