The Haughty Soul of the Avenger: The Myth of Lucius Brutus in the Aeneid (6,817–823)

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dc.contributor.authorRung, Ádám
dc.date.accessioned2026-01-15T14:08:30Z
dc.date.available2026-01-15T14:08:30Z
dc.date.issued2025-09-01
dc.description.abstractIn Book 6 of the Aeneid , Virgil constructs his own version of an epic Underworld and, innovatively, combines it with a panoply of future Roman heroes. This article focuses on the laconic introduction given to one of these heroes, Lucius Iunius Brutus, the founding father of the Roman Republic. More specifically, it examines the opening lines of a striking passage that, in an act of diction that has puzzled readers since antiquity, applies the adjective superbus to Brutus, rather than to his adversary, Tarquin the Proud, whose cognomen bears precisely this meaning. To interpret these lines, the article will attempt—using other literary versions of the work combined with comparative material from similar narratives—to reconstruct the traditional story of Brutus as it was known to Virgil and his contemporaries to determine, firstly, if this elucidates what such a retelling would have meant to the Augustan reader and, secondly, what its possible political and cultural implications would be if read with the traditional myth in mind.en
dc.identifier.citationActa Classica Universitatis Scientiarum Debreceniensis, Vol. 61 (2025) , 55–71.
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.22315/
dc.identifier.eissn2732-3390
dc.identifier.issn0418-453X
dc.identifier.jatitleActa Class. Univ. Sci. Debr.
dc.identifier.jtitleActa Classica Universitatis Scientiarum Debreceniensis
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2437/402912
dc.identifier.volume61
dc.languageen
dc.relationhttps://ojs.lib.unideb.hu/classica/article/view/15403
dc.rights.accessOpen Access
dc.rights.ownerActa Classica Universitatis Scientiarum Debreceniensis
dc.subjectRoman mythen
dc.subjectmyth in Virgilen
dc.subjectAugustan cultureen
dc.subjectLucius Brutusen
dc.subjectTarquin dynastyen
dc.subjectmyth and politicsen
dc.subjectUnderworlden
dc.subjecttyrannyen
dc.subjectoligarchyen
dc.titleThe Haughty Soul of the Avenger: The Myth of Lucius Brutus in the Aeneid (6,817–823)en
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