Abstract
The nine meanders of the river Styx surrounding the Virgilian Hades draw a sort of Labyrinth, whose meaning - due to the symbolic value of number nine in Latin religion and cosmology - is that of definitive separation between the world of dead and the alive.
| Translated title of the contribution | [Autom. eng. transl.] Virgilian variations on the theme of the labyrinth: on the margin of Aen. VI, 438-439 |
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| Original language | Italian |
| Pages (from-to) | 255-265 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | AEVUM ANTIQUUM |
| Volume | n.s. 10 |
| Publication status | Published - 2014 |
Keywords
- Ade
- Hell
- labirinto
- labyrinth