El desprecio del amor habendi en Eneida 8: Eneas en los tiempos de Evandro

Chiara Grimozzi

doi:10.30972/clt.258012

Authors

Chiara Grimozzi Universidad Nacional de La Plata / Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas https://orcid.org/0009-0000-0107-291X

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30972/clt.258012

Keywords:

Evander, Aeneid, humbleness, Pallanteum, Golden Age

Abstract

In Aeneid 8, Aeneas visits Pallanteum to ask Evander for help in the war. However, before receiving Evander’s help, Aeneas will have to participate in a Herculean ritual and listen to the king’s recounting of the region’s history, in which both his actions and his kingdom embody poverty as a virtue –standing in opposition to amor habendi, the cause of the Golden Age’s decline, as well as to Oriental luxury. The aim of my paper is to analyze the episodes in which Evander or his kingdom are characterized as humble or poor in this Book. I argue that Evander promotes a vision of the Golden Age rooted in austerity and self-sufficiency, in contrast to the greed and excess depicted in other episodes of the Georgics and the Aeneid.

Author Biography

Chiara Grimozzi, Universidad Nacional de La Plata / Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas

Profesora y Licenciada en Letras por la Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP). Desde el año 2022 se ha desempeñado como Ayudante en la asignatura Latín I en la Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación de la UNLP (FaHCE-UNLP). Actualmente, se encuentra realizando el Doctorado en Letras (FaHCE-UNLP) sobre Metamorfosis de Ovidio con una Beca Doctoral (2023-2028) del Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET). Es autora de los artículos “El retorno legislado de la edad de oro en Eneida a través de la agricultura y la paz. Redeunt Saturnia regna” (Argos 46, 2021) y “Contentus vivere parvo. Tiempos de vida sencilla en la elegía I, 1 de Tibulo” (Auster 28, 2023).

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