Pallas, Son of Hercules
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Llewelyn Morgan
Abstract
This chapter addresses two “Herculean” artefacts: the Tropaeum Alpium at La Turbie on the heights above Monaco, a monument of Augustan military success which exploits the associations of its immediate environment with Hercules; and Vergil’s Aeneid, in the symbolic economy of which Hercules claims a significant presence, expressed particularly in relation to the young warrior Pallas. There is discussion of the extent to which Aeneas’ role as ancestor of a people and its ruling dynasty is patterned upon widespread myths of Hercules, and consideration also of how Hercules’ status as a road-builder and a paradoxically unifying force between hostile peoples may find parallels in the Aeneid’s complex negotiation of the constructive power of conflict.
Abstract
This chapter addresses two “Herculean” artefacts: the Tropaeum Alpium at La Turbie on the heights above Monaco, a monument of Augustan military success which exploits the associations of its immediate environment with Hercules; and Vergil’s Aeneid, in the symbolic economy of which Hercules claims a significant presence, expressed particularly in relation to the young warrior Pallas. There is discussion of the extent to which Aeneas’ role as ancestor of a people and its ruling dynasty is patterned upon widespread myths of Hercules, and consideration also of how Hercules’ status as a road-builder and a paradoxically unifying force between hostile peoples may find parallels in the Aeneid’s complex negotiation of the constructive power of conflict.
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Contents V
- Introduction 1
- Stephen Harrison’s Major Publications (June 2025) 13
- L. Manlius Torquatus’ in Sullam 27
- Catullus in the Ancient Greek Novels (with a Focus on Chariton) 43
- A Queer Catullus for the 2010s and 2020s? 75
- Swearing like a Philosopher on Trial: Catullus, Epicurus, and Beards in Apuleius’ Apologia 113
- Apuleius and the Greek Novel: Generic Infringement 135
- Philosophical Enrichment: Akrasia in Vergil 167
- Pallas, Son of Hercules 191
- Vergil in Ethiopia? Nello Martinelli’s Amba Alagia 207
- How the Winds Blow: Inherited Anemologies in Valerius Flaccus’s Argonautica 235
- The Gnat’s Descent: Intertextuality and Poetic Memory in the Pseudo-Vergilian Culex 261
- Vergilian Roleplay in The Rape of the Lock 283
- Back to the Future: (Spatio)temporal Enrichment in Horace’s Odes 3.3 and 3.27 307
- List of Contributors 327
- Index Rerum et Nominum
- Index Locorum
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Contents V
- Introduction 1
- Stephen Harrison’s Major Publications (June 2025) 13
- L. Manlius Torquatus’ in Sullam 27
- Catullus in the Ancient Greek Novels (with a Focus on Chariton) 43
- A Queer Catullus for the 2010s and 2020s? 75
- Swearing like a Philosopher on Trial: Catullus, Epicurus, and Beards in Apuleius’ Apologia 113
- Apuleius and the Greek Novel: Generic Infringement 135
- Philosophical Enrichment: Akrasia in Vergil 167
- Pallas, Son of Hercules 191
- Vergil in Ethiopia? Nello Martinelli’s Amba Alagia 207
- How the Winds Blow: Inherited Anemologies in Valerius Flaccus’s Argonautica 235
- The Gnat’s Descent: Intertextuality and Poetic Memory in the Pseudo-Vergilian Culex 261
- Vergilian Roleplay in The Rape of the Lock 283
- Back to the Future: (Spatio)temporal Enrichment in Horace’s Odes 3.3 and 3.27 307
- List of Contributors 327
- Index Rerum et Nominum
- Index Locorum
