Epic Journeys on an Urban Scale: Movement and Travel in Vergil's Aeneid

Authors

Timothy M. O'Sullivan, Trinity UniversityFollow

Document Type

Contribution to Book

Publication Date

2019

Abstract

This chapter concerns different types of travel through space, smaller movements on a horizontal and vertical axes, and the ways that the Aeneid's paradigms of chaotic and orderly movement through space accord with similar patterns in Augustan culture more broadly.

Editor

Thomas Biggs & Jessica Blum

DOI

10.1017/9781108628129.008

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

9781108628129, 9781108498098

Repository Citation

O'Sullivan, T. M. (2019). Epic journeys on an urban scale: Movement and travel in Vergil's Aeneid. In T. Biggs & J. Blum (Eds.), The epic journey in Greek and Roman literature (pp. 151-169). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108628129.008

Publication Information

The Epic Journey in Greek and Roman Literature