March 29

Topic: Eschatology

Readings:

• Aeneid 6.624-853
• Eduard Norden, "Die Eschatologie des sechsten Buches und ihre Quellen," P. Vergilius Maro, Aeneis Buch VI (Leipzig 1903, Darmstadt 1957⁴) pp. 3-48.
• Friedrich Solmsen, "Greek Ideas of the Hereafter in Virgil's Roman Epic," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 112 (1968) 8-14.
• Friedrich Solmsen, "The World of the Dead in Aeneid 6," Classical Philology 67 (1972) 31-41.