Vergil's 'Sheild of Aeneas' (Aeneid 8. 617-731) and the Sheild of Heracles

Faber, Riemer

doi:10.1163/15685250052822027

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“…Modeled after the shield of Achilles in the Iliad and alluding to the shield of Heracles by Pseudo-Hesiod (Faber, 2000;Hardie, 1985), the shield of Aeneas provides great symbolism and purpose by depicting a lengthy ekphrasis of the entire history of Rome from its founding by Romulus through to the future Battle of Actium where Augustus defeated Marc Antony's "unholy alliance" with Cleopatra and her Egyptian forces (Book VIII). The battle on the shield symbolizes the values of Augustan leadership, set against the chaos of Antony and Cleopatra's forces, which "successfully vindicates his claim to be a world-ruler" (Hardie,p.…”

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From classical to contemporary leadership challenges

Ahn

Ettner

Loupin

2011

J of Leadership Studies

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This article explored the Aeneid, Virgil's foundation epic of the Latin canon, from a values-based leadership perspective, which is defined as the moral foundation underlying stewardship decisions and actions of leaders. Specifically, we juxtaposed the resonant leadership elements of vision, culture, and values-and their corresponding equivalent Roman themes of fatum, pietas, and virtus. Using a thematic analysis approach, we coded the following eight values: integrity, good judgment, leadership by example, decision making, trust, justice/fairness, humility, and sense of urgency. We found that while the Aeneid extols prototypical values, the epic instructs that truly effective leadership is not about being a monochromatic prototype. Rather, the epic reveals that the essence and privilege of effective leadership demands reflection on the dynamic relationship between the leader and the led toward a better, envisioned future.

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Section: Symbolism and Ritualmentioning

confidence: 99%

From classical to contemporary leadership challenges

Ahn

Ettner

Loupin

2011

J of Leadership Studies

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“…1.721): see Nelis (2001) 355. Allusion to the Hesiodic Scutum reinforces the parallel between Aeneas and Heracles: see Faber (2000). 61 See Harder (2012b) 488-91, following Lloyd-Jones and Parsons (1983) 109-110, 117 and D'Alessio (1996) 466-9.…”

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Hospitality Narratives in Virgil and Callimachus: The Ideology of Reception

O'Rourke

2017

Camb. class. j.

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This article highlights the extent and significance of the intertextual relationship between reception-narratives in Virgil's Aeneid (Aeneas and Evander) and Callimachus' Aetia (Heracles and Molorcus) and Hecale (Theseus and Hecale). Encompassing Aeneas' succession to Hercules as Evander's guest, his failed pledge to his host, and his acquisition of a shield on which his historical successor, Augustus, is depicted, Callimachean intertextuality informs the narrative of the Aeneid in its widest sweep. As the archetypal scene of Homeric hospitality (Odysseus and Eumaeus) is received from Callimachus by the new Homer of Augustan Rome, the narrative of reception becomes one of intertextual and cultural appropriation, the dynamic s of which are far from those of amicable exchange. 'The new poem both needs the old texts and must destroy them. It is both parasitical on them, feeding ungraciously on their substance, and at the same time it is the sinister host which unmans them by inviting them into its home, as the Green Knight invites Gawain.' J. Hillis Miller 1

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“…Sc. 144: ou ti phateios (‘not at all expressible’, on which see Faber (2000). See Fowler (1990) on problems of focalization in the Aeneid ; my point is that non enarrabile need not be an instance of ‘deviant focalization’ (Fowler's term) since it holds true for Virgil as narrator and focalizer.…”

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