The survival and supremacy of rome: The unity of the shield of aeneas

Journal of Roman Studies

Volumn 87, Issue , 1997, Pages 70-76

  Harrison, S J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 85008550052     PISSN: 00754358     EISSN: 1753528X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/301369     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. W. Warde, Aeneas at the Site of Rome (1918), 103-105.
2. David W., ‘Cernere erat: the Shield of Aeneas’, PVS 15 (1975-1976).
3. Oxford Readings in Vergil's Aeneid (1990), 295-304.
4. D. L. Drew, The Allegory of the Aeneid (1927), 26-31.
5. Conveniently illustrated in P. Zanker, The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus (1988), 95, fig.79.
6. A. J. Woodman, ‘Virgil the historian: Aeneid and Livy’, in J. Diggle, J. B. Hall, and H. D. Jocelyn (eds), Studies in Latin Literature and its Tradition in Honour ofC. O. Brink, Cambridge Philo-logical Society supplementary volume 15 (1989), 132-145.
7. For Rome's position in Italy in this period see T. J. Cornell, The Beginnings of Rome (1995), 208-214.
8. There was indeed a tradition in which the Capitol too was said to have been captured, quite possibly recording historical reality, naturally obscured by Roman historians: cf. O. Skutsch, The Annals of Quintus Ennius (1985), 408.
9. For further connections of the Lupercalia with Romulus and Remus see the interesting speculations of T. P. Wiseman, Remus: A Roman Myth (1995), 77-88.
10. For the Luperci cf. G. Wissowa, Die Religion und Kultus der Romer (2nd edn, 1912), 559-561.
11. Condita Book vol. VI (1994), 109.
12. J. G. Griffith, ‘The Shield of Aeneas’, PVS 7 (1967-1968), 54-65.
13. Vergil's reading of Sallust here is suggested by R. Syme, Sallust (1964), 286.
14. R. Syme, The Roman Revolution (1939), 305: ‘When the Triumvir Antonius abode for long years in the East men might fear lest the city be dethroned from its pride of place, lest the capital of empire be transferred to other lands’.
15. This is of course a classic example of the feature identified by Edward Said's Orientalism (1978).