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Document Details : Title: Along the Curving Shore Subtitle: Monstra and Failures of Hospitium in Aeneid 3 Author(s): NAPPA, Christopher Journal: Latomus Volume: 79 Issue: 2 Date: 2020 Pages: 361-383 DOI: 10.2143/LAT.79.2.3288655 Abstract : The third book of the Aeneid falls into three sections, each of which is structured around the combination of a monstrum, the phrase litus curuum, and the theme of hospitality; they all explore the relationship between mortals and the divine. The book as a whole, then, serves to outline and advance a necessary moral lesson for Aeneas and his followers about hospitium, a value crucial to the survival of refugees in general and to the development of the Trojans in particular, who learn that even in their time of need hospitium must remain a reciprocal institution. |
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