Date of Award
4-1936
Degree Type
Bachelors Essay
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts (BA)
Department
Literatures, Languages, and Cultures
First Advisor
George R. Griffin
Abstract
The purpose of this thesis is to trace Aeneas’s trip through the lower world, to clarify the allusions that are referred to in the original trip of Aeneas as portrayed by Vergil, and to identify the characters that are seen by Aeneas as he makes his way through Hades. Since Vergil wrote his Aeneid for a pagan audience, who knew the allusions that he mentioned in his account of Aeneas’s journey, there was no need for him to go into details about some of the events and characters found in the Sixth Book of the Aeneid; but to a present day reader, many of the allusions are unknown, and most authors, who have made an edition of Vergil’s work, do not give sufficient notes to clarify all the allusions and to Identify all the characters that Aeneas meets in Hades.
Recommended Citation
Kovaleski, Walter, "Aeneas's Trip Through the Lower World" (1936). Bachelors’ Theses. 929.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/bachelor_essays/929
Comments
A Thesis submitted to the Faculty of the College of Liberal Arts of Marquette University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts, Milwaukee, Wisconsin