TY  - GEN
N2  - This article argues that Virgil?s designation of Hercules as uera Iouis proles (?true offspring of Jupiter?) in the Salii?s hymn to the hero (Aeneid 8.301) played a significant role in Flavian epic poets? stance on the em-peror?s divinity. A close intertextual analysis of Valerius Flaccus?, Statius?, and Silius? reuses of Virgil?s for-mula shows how its original use as an anchor for the emperor?s claim to divine parentage evolved through-out the Flavian dynasty into a progressively more disenchanted and potentially subversive approach to the subject. In a new political context where two brothers, Titus and Domitian, could both aspire to diviniza-tion, the broader implications of Virgil?s formula, with its veiled allusion to Iphicles, Hercules? mortal and cowardly half-brother, called attention to the possible existence of a false offspring of Jupiter and urged Flavian epic poets to explore critically the validity of some mythic models as anchoring devices for the emperor?s divinity.
UR  - https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/propylaeumdok/6361/
A1  - Busti, Francesco
CY  - Heidelberg
ID  - propylaeumdok6361
PB  - Propylaeum
AV  - public
Y1  - 2024///
TI  - Vera Iouis proles(?). Anchoring Domitian?s divinity
ER  -