Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Contributors ix
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. Into the Woods (Via Cuma 320, Bacoli) 14
7. 2. A Walk in Vergil’s Footsteps: Statius on the Via Domitiana 31
8. 3. In the Sibyl’s Cave: Vergilian Prophecy and Mary Shelley’s Last Man 62
9. 4. Exploring the Forests of Antiquity: The Golden Bough and Early Modern Spirituality 77
10. 5. Aeneas’ Steps 94
11. 6. Vergil’s Underworld and the Afterlife of Lovers and Love Poets 111
12. 7. Vergilian Underworlds in Ovid 134
13. 8. Mortem aliquid ultra est: Vergil’s Underworld in Senecan Tragedy 153
14. 9. Servius on Sinners and Punishments in Vergil’s Underworld 172
15. 10. Paradise and Performance in Vergil’s Underworld and Horace’s Carmen Saeculare 187
16. 11. Why Isn’t Homer in Vergil’s Underworld? – and Other Notable Absences 206
17. 12. The Silence of Aeneid 6 in Augustine’s Confessions 224
18. 13. Spiritualism as Textual Practice 241
19. Works Cited 261
20. Index 289
21. PHOENIX SUPPLEMENTARY VOLUMES 303