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Chapter 1 - The art of walking

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2011

Timothy M. O'Sullivan
Timothy M. O'Sullivan
Affiliation:
Trinity University, Texas
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In the first book of Virgil’s Aeneid, Aeneas and Achates separate from their shipwrecked companions and set out to discover where they have landed. They come upon a woman dressed in hunting garb, who explains to them the land they are in and the story of its queen. Only as she turns away does she reveal herself as the goddess Venus, Aeneas’ mother (Aen. 1.402–5):

  1. dixit et avertens rosea cervice refulsit,

  2. ambrosiaeque comae divinum vertice odorem

  3. spiravere; pedes vestis defluxit ad imos;

  4. et vera incessu patuit dea.

Thus she spoke. Turning away, she gleamed from her rosy neck, and the heavenly tresses wafted a divine fragrance from her head; her clothes flowed all the way down to her feet, and by the way she walked she was clearly a true goddess.

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Walking in Roman Culture , pp. 11 - 33
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2011

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