The nine meanders of the river Styx surrounding the Virgilian Hades draw a sort of Labyrinth, whose meaning - due to the symbolic value of number nine in Latin religion and cosmology - is that of definitive separation between the world of dead and the alive.
Rivoltella, M., Variazioni virgiliane sul tema del labirinto: in margine ad Aen. VI, 438-439, <<AEVUM ANTIQUUM>>, 2014; n.s. 10 (2010): 255-265 [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/60167]
Variazioni virgiliane sul tema del labirinto: in margine ad Aen. VI, 438-439
Rivoltella, Massimo
2014
Abstract
The nine meanders of the river Styx surrounding the Virgilian Hades draw a sort of Labyrinth, whose meaning - due to the symbolic value of number nine in Latin religion and cosmology - is that of definitive separation between the world of dead and the alive.File in questo prodotto:
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