Immolare in Virgil

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.6018/myrtia.588041
Keywords: immolare, anger of Aeneas, death of Turnus, human sacrifice

Abstract

The verb immolare has only three occurrences in the entire Virgilian work, all in the Aeneid and all referring to Aeneas: in his slaughter after the death of Pallas in l. X he makes human sacrifices and when he kills Turnus at the end of the poem, he defines it as a sacrifice. The contrast between the sacred value of immolation and the horror of human sacrifice is surprising and deserves an analysis.

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Published
16-10-2023
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Gagliardi, P. (2023). Immolare in Virgil. Myrtia, 38. https://doi.org/10.6018/myrtia.588041
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