Le rôle du Tibre au livre VIII de l’Énéide

Abstract

Aeneid 8 begins with an intervention of the God Tiber without any direct precedent in Virgil’s epic models. This representation of the Tiber is part of a network together with other figures of River-Gods in the last part of the book. A close study of the structural and thematic consistency of this network gives way to an allegorical reading of the whole. The main idea of my investigation is that the mastering of the river is a stake which underpins, as a secondary recurrent motive, the heroic quest of which book 8 brings, in some way, the achievement.