The Reconciliations of Juno

Abstract

The reconciliation between Juno and Jupiter at the end of the Aeneid (12. 791–842) forms the cap to the divine action of the poem. The scene is conventionally regarded as the resolution of the heavenly discord that has prevailed since the first book; in particular, it is normal to see here a definitive transformation of Juno, as she abandons, her enmity once and for all, committing herself wholeheartedly to the Roman cause. So G. Lieberg, for example: ‘I due emisferi di Giove e di Giunone alia fine del poema si ricongiungono nella totalita del mondo divino, garante del glorioso futuro di Roma’ or W. Kiihn: ‘In einem strahlenden, vollen Schlussakkord endet das Gottergesprach.’

Virgil and The Poetry of Explanations

“…39 Even Juno abandons her enmity towards Aeneas' settlement (1.279 ff, 12.818) and argues with Jupiter only over the details of the accord between Trojans and Latins: Roman pietas, Jupiter assures her, will be manifested in special devotion to Juno. 40 Aeneas says to Latinus (12.192) sacra deosque dabo, while in her last discussion with Jupiter, Juno does not mention the gods; Jupiter does, however, at length (12.836-40) and declares that he will himself add morem ritusque sacrorum. That this mos will in fact be decidedly Trojan is not, in the interests of tact and reconciliation, here mentioned, but is a necessary consequence of the repeated emphasis on religious continuity between Troy and Rome, 41 of the repeated emphasis upon Aeneas as the exemplar of Roman pietas* 2 and of the historical fact of the veneration still paid at Lavinium to objects thought to be the Trojan Penates, 43 which even continued down to the 370s A.D. (Symm.…”

Stile didascalico e verità del mito in un exemplum ovidiano : Ars amatoria 1, 623-6

“…her. 9, 45 s. ; 14, 85.42 Feeney 1984Feeney (= 1990. 48 e 361 s.).43.Una replica scherzosa del Giudizio di Paride è inscenata nel VI libro dei Fasti : davanti al poeta in veste di arbiter, Giunone contende a Ebe/Iuventas e a Concordia l'onore di aver dato il nome al mese di giugno ; Ovidio, che rifiuterà prudentemente di assegnare la vittoria (6, 99 s. ite pares a me : perierunt iudice formae/Pergama : plus laedunt, quam iuvat una, duae), ironizza qui sull'atteggiamento minaccioso di Giunone, pronta a pentirsi della sua riconciliazione e a ridivenire ostile ai discendenti dei Troiani : fast.…”

“…met. 3, 332-5 arbiter hic igitur sumptus de lite iocosa/dicta Iovis firmat ; gravius Saturnia iusto/nec pro materia fertur doluisse suique/iudicis aeterna damnavit lumina nocte.44.Horsfall 1973Horsfall -4 (= 1990Feeney 1984Feeney (= 1990 1991, p. 131. 45.…”

Virum Volitare Per Ora: Genre And Poetic Immortality In Vergil’s Georgics

“…Aen., 12.827: sit Romana potens Itala virtute propago. On Juno's reconciliation(s) with Juppiter seeFeeney 1984. 179 Pogorzelski (2009 argues that by presenting the Latin War as a civil was Vergil retrojects Italian unity onto the pre-Roman mythical past.…”