Symbolae Philologorum Posnaniensium, 2011, nr XXI/2

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Wergiliusz jako twórca labiryntu
(Wydawnictwo Poznańskiego Towarzystwa Przyjaciół Nauk, 2011) Krawczyk, Ewelina
Vergil described his opus magnum, Aeneis, within the poem itself - as a temple’s door ecphrasis. By introducing Daedalus’ narrative into the main narrative, he set a bunch of signs of identity, both biographical and textual, between himself and the ancient inventor, in order to show the analogous identity between Aeneis and Daedalus’ work, the double labyrinth. By that he managed to highlight the hybrid nature of Aeneis itself and also, through some textual omissions, to depict Roman superhero-to-be, Aeneas, as a traitor. Vergil also made this ecphrasis both poet’s statement about boundaries of making poetry and a masterpiece of Augustan propaganda.