Lee FRATANTUONO,
Herodotus’ Artemisia and Virgil’s Camilla
Keywords: Herodotus, Virgil, Artemisia, Camilla.
Abstract: Close study of the parallels between Herodotus’ Artemisia and Virgil’s Camilla reveals a number of striking intertextual connections between the characters, and a corresponding intricately fashioned web of Virgilian borrowings from Herodotus. Virgil’s use of Herodotus as a significant source for his epic is shown to reflect both the poet’s concern with the problem of Roman ethnicity, and the historical reality of Cleopatra’s threat to the Augustan regime.