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Donning Tragedy: The Baldric in Virgil’s Aeneid

Mac Góráin, Fiachra; (2024) Donning Tragedy: The Baldric in Virgil’s Aeneid. In: Augoustakis, Antony and Frangoulidis, Stavros and Thorsen, Thea S, (eds.) Stefanos: Studies in honour of Stephen J Harrison. De Gruyter: Berlin, Germany. (In press).

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Abstract

It is argued that the baldric (Latin balteus) that Turnus strips from the corpse of Pallas (Aeneid 10.495–505) and wears in his duel with Aeneas (12.939–953) has tragic resonances, and that it functions as a symbol for tragedy like the coturnus worn by Venus at Aeneid 1.337. The main evidence for this argument is lexical data from fragments of antiquarian texts by Varro and Accius, preserved by the late antique grammarian Nonius Marcellus. The scenes involving the baldric are read against their epic and tragic background, and some tragic mythical resonances are explored.

Type: Book chapter
Title: Donning Tragedy: The Baldric in Virgil’s Aeneid
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Language: English
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UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Dept of Greek and Latin
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10191614
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