King of the Wood: The Sacrificial Victor in Virgil's Aeneid (Oklahoma Series for Classical Culture)

277 Pages·2001·0.8 MB·English

by  Julia T. Dyson

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ING OF THE OOD
Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture
OKLAHOMASERIESINCLASSICALCULTURE
SERIESEDITOR
Ward W. Briggs, Jr., University of South Carolina
ADVISORYBOARD
Susan Guettel Cole, State University of New York, Buffalo
Carolyn J. Dewald, University of Southern California
Thomas M. Falkner, The College of Wooster
Elaine Fantham, Princeton University
Nancy Felson, University of Georgia
Helene P. Foley, Barnard College
Ellen S. Greene, University of Oklahoma
Sara Mack, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Thomas R. Martin, College of the Holy Cross
John F. Miller, University of Virginia
Jon Solomon, University of Arizona
Richard F. Thomas, Harvard University
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ING OF THE OOD
The Sacrificial Victor
in Virgil’s Aeneid
Julia T. Dyson
UNIVERSITYOFOKLAHOMAPRESS: NORMAN
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Dyson, Julia T. (Julia Taussig), 1966–
King of the Wood : the sacrificial victor in Virgil’s Aeneid / Julia T.
Dyson.
p. cm. — (Oklahoma series in classical culture ; v. 27)
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
ISBN 0-8061-3341-4 (alk. paper)
1. Virgil. Aeneid. 2. Epic poetry, Latin—History and criticism.
3. Turnus (Legendary character) in literature. 4. Aeneas (Legendary
character) in literature. 5. Mythology, Roman, in literature.
6. Human sacrifice in literature. 7. Diana (Roman deity)—Cult.
8. Rome—In literature. 9. Rome—Religion. I. Title. II. Series.
PA6825 .D96 2001
873æ.01—dc21
2001023066
King of the Wood:The Sacrificial Victor in Virgil’sAeneid is Volume 27 in the
Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture.
The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durabil-
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Copyright © 2001 by the University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Publish-
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ONTENTS
Acknowledgments ix
Abbreviations xi
Introduction 3
Part 1: Sacrificial Victory
1. The Piaculaof Aeneas 29
2. Tiber and Numicus 50
3. The Unburied Dead 74
4. Victor and Victim 95
5. Aeneas and Turnus 112
6. Juno’s Honores 125
Part 2: The Ghastly Priest
7. The Golden Bough 133
8. The Three Faces of Diana 148
9. Dying Kings 168
10. The Tropaeum 184
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11. Ida and Alba 195
12. The King of the Wood 210
Conclusion 228
Bibliography 237
Index of Passages Cited 251
General Index 259
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CKNOWLEDGMENTS
This project has been brewing for over a decade and has incurred
substantial debts of gratitude. Some of its arguments have been
presented to audiences at Harvard University (1993), Mount Holy-
oke College (1993), Tulane University (1993), the University of Texas
(1994), the University of Oklahoma (1997), the College of St. Thomas
More (1997), the University of Colorado (1997), Baylor University
(1998), the University of North Carolina (2001), and meetings of the
Classical Association of the Middle West and South (1996, 1999,
2000; Southern Section, 1998, 2000) and the American Philological
Association (2001). The 1994 NEH Summer Institute “Reading
Virgil’s Aeneidin the Humanities Curriculum,” graciously hosted
by Christine Perkell at Emory University, gave me the opportunity
to immerse myself in Virgil and to meet some of the world’s finest
Virgilians. My colleagues at the University of Texas at Arlington,
Denny Bradshaw, Charlie Chiasson, and Tim Mahoney, have
weathered my screeds and continued to speak to me for years now.
Our dauntless secretary Billie Hughes and her staff, Stephen
Shepherd, David Stalder, Tung Chau, and Jon Olson, have given
me innumerable hours of research assistance. I owe much to the
cheerful competence of classics librarian Bobbie Johnson and the
Interlibrary Loan Department, sine qua non.