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Vera Iouis proles(?). Anchoring Domitian’s divinity

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  • معلومة اضافية
    • بيانات النشر:
      Propylaeum
    • الموضوع:
      2024
    • Collection:
      Propylaeum-DOK (Virtual Library of Classical Studies, Heidelberg University)
    • نبذة مختصرة :
      This article argues that Virgil’s designation of Hercules as uera Iouis proles (‘true offspring of Jupiter’) in the Salii’s hymn to the hero (Aeneid 8.301) played a significant role in Flavian epic poets’ stance on the em-peror’s divinity. A close intertextual analysis of Valerius Flaccus’, Statius’, and Silius’ reuses of Virgil’s for-mula shows how its original use as an anchor for the emperor’s claim to divine parentage evolved through-out the Flavian dynasty into a progressively more disenchanted and potentially subversive approach to the subject. In a new political context where two brothers, Titus and Domitian, could both aspire to diviniza-tion, the broader implications of Virgil’s formula, with its veiled allusion to Iphicles, Hercules’ mortal and cowardly half-brother, called attention to the possible existence of a false offspring of Jupiter and urged Flavian epic poets to explore critically the validity of some mythic models as anchoring devices for the emperor’s divinity.
    • File Description:
      application/pdf
    • Relation:
      https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/propylaeumdokhttps://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/propylaeumdok/6361/1/Busti_Vera_louis_proles_2024.pdf; urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-propylaeumdok-63615; Busti, Francesco (2024) Vera Iouis proles(?). Anchoring Domitian’s divinity.
    • الرقم المعرف:
      10.11588/propylaeumdok.00006361
    • الدخول الالكتروني :
      https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/propylaeumdok/6361/
      https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeumdok.00006361
    • Rights:
      info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess ; Please see front page of the work (Sorry, Dublin Core plugin does not recognise license id)
    • الرقم المعرف:
      edsbas.9DAC606D