CONICET | Buscador de Institutos y Recursos Humanos

Abstract: The recipient of the Book 8 of the Aeneid is, like all the work, an educated reader that knows the literary system, versions of myths and stories and that recognizes the symbolic meaning which involves any reference to specific geographic locations and urban. However, the fact that Virgil´s use of the city and key urban geography describing known places and monuments, we can hypothesize that the geographical description is referential feature different from the literary tradition, it refers to the city itself, and its monuments, as a reservoir of historical memory. Thus the city appears as an intertext, as an instance of cultural dialogue between two different spaces that converge in the construction of meaning. Subtlety is not in the Virgilian panegiric or propaganda, but in the intelligent building of a complex historical memory, because we recognize two types of memory: the memory of individual citizens, of every reader, which is constructed and simultaneously evokes, but also the memory of the city, a report that Rome holds the memories of a past that is updated in each of its buildings and monuments.