Resumen de Along the Curving Shore Monstra and Failures of Hospitium in Aeneid 3
The third book of the Aeneid falls into three sections, each of which is structured around the combination of a monstrum, the phrase litus curuum, and the theme of hospitality; they all explore the relationship between mortals and the divine. The book as a whole, then, serves to outline and advance a necessary moral lesson for Aeneas and his followers about hospitium, a value crucial to the survival of refugees in general and to the development of the Trojans in particular, who learn that even in their time of need hospitium must remain a reciprocal institution.
