As pinturas do templo de Juno e o Ciclo Troiano: imagem e memória épica na arquitetura da Eneida

Abstract

Entitled "The Pictures of Juno's Temple and the Trojan Cycle: image and epic memory in the architecture of the Aeneid", this dissertation focus on the relations between this literaty piece of work and the Trojan cycle inpired in the episode of the paintings of Juno's temple (I, v. 450-493). Despite the extensive bibliography about the Virgilian studies , this issue has not been given appropriete attention throughout the years. In order to lay the foundations of Trojan cycle lost poems (Cypria, Aethiopis, Lstle Iliad, Sack of Ilian, Returns and Telegony). The second and third chapters deal with four propositions: the pictures of Juno's temple speciallyevoke some poems from the Trojan cycle (acp. II.1); the images are disposed in conformity with this evocation (Cap. II.2); in the composition of this episode, rhetoric theory of the art of memory is used and ilustrated (chapter II, 3); the sequence of evoked cyclic poems is continued in the first six books and being so plays some important role in the architecture of the Aeneid (chapter III). The investigations developed to demonstrate these propisitions heve revgealed a dialogue consciously woven with the poems of this cycle and, therefore, propitiate the conveyance of new meanings in the reading of the Aeneid. With such proceeding Virgil not only revive the memory of the saga of Troy, in which his epic is contextualized, but he also "reedit" the Trojan cycle, this time, revolving around Aeneas.