Actoris Aurunci Spolium: A Virgilian Reading of Juvenal's Second Satire

• Autores: Lee Fratantuono
• Localización: Antiquité classique, ISSN 0770-2817, Nº. 84, 2015, págs. 141-150
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Juvenal�s second satire is a carefully crafted response to Virgil�s Aeneid, in which the satirist offers the reflection that the final ethnographic identity of Rome that had been decreed by Jupiter to Juno at the end of Virgil�s epic may not, in fact, be the reality that had emerged by Juvenal�s day. The Actoris Aurunci spolium or the �spoils of Auruncan Actor�, which is transferred from Virgil�s Turnus to Juvenal�s Otho becomes a symbol of how the Trojan element in Rome�s mytho-historical past may prove, ultimately, to be more resilient than the Italian element in the definition of the mores of the empire