Divinization and Didactic Efficacy in Virgil’s Georgics

Xinyue, Bobby

doi:10.5040/9781350070547.ch-006

Reflections and New Perspectives on Virgil’s Georgics 2019

DOI: 10.5040/9781350070547.ch-006

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Divinization and Didactic Efficacy in Virgil’s Georgics

Bobby Xinyue¹

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“…For Lucan's extra-Georgic models here, seeGee 2000, 190; Tarrant 2006, 67; Roche 2009, 9, 130; Nelis 2011, 259; Esposito 2013, 200-201;Nauta 2019, 129-132. 4 Nelis 2010 2013, 253-256, 261-262; Domenicucci 2013, 75-76; Whitcomb 2018, 424;Xinyue 2020, 93-97. 5 Ahl 1976 Gee 2000, 190; Kessler 2011, 132; Serena 2020, 122.…”

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Lucanian Pragmatism and the Manilian Cosmos

Sanderson

2023

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Lucan’s invocation to Nero (1.33-66) is notorious for its seemingly contradictory praise and condemnation of the emperor. While analyses of this passage often turn to Virgil’s Georgics (1.24-28, 489-497, 500-515) to begin to explain this inherent paradox, Grimal (2010) has demonstrated the importance of Manilius’ Astronomica as a cosmological framework for these lines which invites a more positive reading of Nero’s presentation here. By examining the presence of two Manilian models in Lucan’s invocation to Nero, their contributions to the Lucanian cosmos, and their consequences for our understanding of the options laid out for the emperor’s heavenly future, this study argues for a more pragmatic—even hopeful—reading of Nero’s apotheosis and the implications of this for Lucan’s commentary on the Neronian present.

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