April 5

Topic: The Heldenschau

Readings:

• Aeneid 6.679-853
• Thomas N. Habinek, "Science and Tradition in Aeneid 6," Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 92 (1989) 223-255.
• D. C. Feeney, "History and Revelation in Vergil's Underworld," Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society 212 (1986) 1-24.
• James E. G. Zetzel, "Romane memento: Justice and Judgment in Aeneid 6," Transactions of the American Philological Association 119 (1989) 263-284.