Latin 602, “Vergil’s Aeneid, Book 6”

February 1, 1999:
Interpretive Contexts of Aeneid 6

• Vergil's life and career
• Eclogue 4.4: Vltima Cumaei uenit iam carminis aetas
• Georgics 4.563-567 (sphragis)
• Georgics 2. 136-176 (laudes Italiae)
• Vergil's tomb; Neapolitan traditions
• Contemporary History
• The Portus Iulius
• Georgics 2. 136-176 (laudes Italiae)
• Strabo, Geography 5.4.5
• Aeneid 9.710-716
• Horace, Odes 2.18.17-22
• The Sybilline Books
• Mythological Tradition
• Aeneas’ landfall in Italy
• Aeneas’ consultation of the Sibyl
• Varro ap. Lactantius div. inst. 1.6.9 (=fr. 12 Strzelecki): quartam [sc. Sibyllam] Cimmeriam in Italia quam Naevius in libris Belli Punici, Piso in Annalibus nominat.
• Aeneas’ catabasis/nekyia
• Deadalus in Cumae
• Italian Topography
• The Wanderings of Aeneas
• Aeneas’ companions and Italian toponyms
• Palinurus / Palinurum (Palinuro): Aeneid 6.381
• Misenus / Misenum (Miseno): Aeneid 6.234
• Caieta  (Gaeta): Aeneid 6.900, 7.2
• Prochyta (Procida): Aeneid 9.715
• Other mythological toponyms in Italy
• Monte Circeo
• Herculaneum
• The Tyrrhenian coast from Rome to Naples
• Strabo,  Geography 5.4-9
• Gaeta
• Sperlonga
• Entrance to the Grotto of Tiberius
• The Bay of Naples area
• Aerial view of the Campi Phlegrei
• Solfatara
• the landscape
• another view
• Map of the area during the second c. AD
• The "Cave of the Sibyl"
• plan
• entrance
• the tunnel
• another view
• the adyton
• another view
• the "Grotta di Cocceio"
• Lake Avernus, looking towards Point Misenum