Vol. 16 No. 3 (1990): XVI - 1990, fascicolo 3
Articoli

Manilio e la pietas eroica di L. Cecilio Metello

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  • Laura Bocciolini Palagi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/prometheus-15424

Published 2023-11-22

Keywords

  • Manilius,
  • L. Caecilius Metellus,
  • Aeneas,
  • Roman religion

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Abstract

In the proem to his fourth book, Manilius compares Metellus, pontifex maximus in 241 BC, who saved from fire the sacred images preserved in Vesta’s shrine, to Aeneas who did the same with the Trojan Penates. This parallel was in all likelihood traditional.

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