The Aeneid and the Epic Cycle
Channel: Kiwi Hellenist
Date: 2022-02-23

Vergil's Aeneid is very meta in its use of Homer and other older poetry. Does it do the same with the Epic Cycle?

The answer is: sort of. Vergil was certainly aware of the Epic Cycle -- but there's some reason to think that he never actually got to read it.

Re-recording for YouTube of a paper given at the ASCS 41 Conference, Dunedin, NZ, Jan. 2020.

I also used some material in this paper in a piece on the Kiwi Hellenist website, at http://kiwihellenist.blogspot.com/2020/02/epic-cycle.html.