Resumen de Why was Virgil called ‘Parthenias’?
The nickname ‘Parthenias’ assigned to Virgil in Naples, as Donatus states in his Vita Vergili, was variously interpreted by the scholars, as to the poet’s morality, or to his name, or to Parthenope. There are new possibilities of clarifying the appellative thanks to Brown’s discovery of an acrostic in the first book of the Georgics. In the context of this acrostic there is a word, virgineum (v. 430), which perhaps suggested the nickname.
