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 |
---|---|
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