Mac Góráin, Fiachra;
(2025)
Turnus Donning Tragedy: The Baldric in Virgil’s Aeneid.
In: Augoustakis, Antony and Frangoulidis, Stavros and Thorsen, Thea S, (eds.)
Classical Enrichment: Greek and Latin Literature and its Reception.
(pp. 199-216).
De Gruyter: Berlin, Germany.
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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 |
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| Title: | Turnus Donning Tragedy: The Baldric in Virgil’s Aeneid |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1515/9783111577289-013 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111577289-013 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Turnus, Pallas, Virgil, Aeneid, tragedy, antiquarianism, Varro, Accius, Nonius Marcellus |
| UCL classification: | UCL 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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