The Divinization of Aeneas in Lazio: From a Missing Hero to Pater Indiges

Authors

  • Thiago Eustáquio Araújo Mota Universidade Federal de Goiás Universidade de Pernambuco
  • Ana Teresa Marques Gonçalves Universidade de São Paulo Universidade Federal de Goiás Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.52885/2683-9164.v0.n15.21420

Keywords:

Aeneas, deification, myth, Lavinium, Ancient Lazio, Archaeology

Abstract

The deification of Aeneas is the aspect of a myth with several temporal layers that are recorded in the literature of the Principate and especially in the Aeneid. We propose in this paper a mapping of this issue - and the epithet itself, Indiges - in the Greek and Latin authors previous to Virgil as well as in the archaeological documentation, given their relation to the topography of the ancient Lazio. The article is a description of the apotheosis from the sources listed and an assessment of the question of what has been studied about. Well before the Iulii Caesaris inserted themselves in the family tree of this hero, claiming descendancy from Ascanio / Iulo, several indications suggest the existence of a cult of Aeneas as the founder of Lavinium. Through the testimony of Cato, Cassius Hemina and more specifically of Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Livy, we know that the son of Venus and Anchises received a specific kind of worship that approached him to the chthonic deities and linked him to a possible heroon /cenotaph.

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Author Biographies

Thiago Eustáquio Araújo Mota, Universidade Federal de Goiás Universidade de Pernambuco

Ana Teresa Marques Gonçalves, Universidade de São Paulo Universidade Federal de Goiás Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa

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Published

2015-12-01

How to Cite

Araújo Mota, T. E., & Marques Gonçalves, A. T. (2015). The Divinization of Aeneas in Lazio: From a Missing Hero to Pater Indiges. Anuario Del Centro De Estudios Históricos Profesor Carlos S. A. Segreti, (15), 103–126. https://doi.org/10.52885/2683-9164.v0.n15.21420

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No. 15 (2015)

Section

Studies

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