The Bees of Rome: Representing Social and Spiritual Transition in Victorian Poetry
In Book VI of the Aeneid, Virgil used bees to lgure human spirits in the Underworld. This was not the earliest association of bees with death and the afterlife, but it was the lrst such link in European literature. Virgil’s bees lgured those spirits who would become Aeneas’ descendants, future citiz...
| Subtitles: | Special issue: Bees and Honey in Religions |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Equinox Publ.
2020
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| In: |
Journal for the study of religion, nature and culture
Year: 2020, Volume: 14, Issue: 3, Pages: 395-411 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Vergilius Maro, Publius 70 BC-19 BC, Aeneis 6
/ Apidae (Family)
/ Death
/ Great Britain
/ Culture
/ History 1837-1901
/ Literature
/ Spirituality
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| RelBib Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion BE Greco-Roman religions CE Christian art KBF British Isles |
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Browning
B Virgil B Michael Field B Catholicism B Anglo-Catholicism B Bees B Dante B Tennyson B Christina Rossetti |
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