Tradition and innovation: a homeric youth in the beginning of the Aeneid
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Amidst the deeds depicted in Juno’s Carthaginian temple, Virgil conducts Aeneas’ eye to one small motif: Troilus’ death after his encounter with Achilles. This emphasis anticipates the fate awaiting the youngsters who are to engage in the war, because it presents some contents reprised in the second half of the work. However, considering Troilus’ absence in the Iliad (and his guaranteed survival in the Aeneid), the scene entails a strong poetic (and ideological) statement regarding what Virgil chooses to rescue from literature’s silence and history’s oblivion.
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