# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Hercules and the Birth of Roman Religion in Aeneid 8.184-279
- **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 25 Oct, 2019 at 01:30 pm – Fri, 25 Oct, 2019 at 03:30 pm
- **Event Description**: The Department of Classics and Relgion presents a talk by Dr. Matthew Loar

Hercules and the Birth of Roman Religion in Aeneid 8.184-279.

Friday, October 25th, 2019
1:30pm
Social Sciences Building, room SS 541
This event is free and open to the public.

This paper examines three unexplored religious aspects of the Hercules-Cacus myth from Book 8 of the Aeneid. I begin by showing how Evander alludes to the Ennian contest of auguries in recounting the combat between Hercules and Cacus, using the latter to tell a modified version of the battle between Romulus and Remus. Next, I highlight how Hercules’ triumph over Cacus imitates and enacts a first sacrifice, and so I will propose that the battle offers an aetiology not only for a religious monument, the Ara Maxima, but also for the activity performed at it and other altars in Rome: animal sacrifice. Finally, I suggest that Evander’s description of the defeated Cacus refers to Hercules’ alleged blinding of Appius Claudius Caecus in 312 BCE. I ultimately argue that Evander’s telling of Hercules’ battle with Cacus casts the myth as a fight more broadly for the shape of Rome’s sacred topography and the form of Rome’s earliest religious activities.

Matthew Loar:
Dr.  Loar is the Director of Fellowships and Assistant Professor of Classics (by courtesy) at Washington and Lee University. He received an M.St. in Women’s Studies from the University of Oxford in 2009, and his Ph.D. in Classics from Stanford University in 2015. He has co-edited for Cambridge University Press two recent volumes on Roman cultural history—Rome, Empire of Plunder: The Dynamics of Cultural Appropriation (2017) and The Cultural History of Augustan Rome: Texts, Monuments and Topography (2019)—and he has also published articles on ancient graffiti in Pompeii and Herculaneum.
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- **city**: Calgary
- **state**: AB
- **country**: Canada
- **location**: University of Calgary Department of Classics and Religion
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- **full address**: University of Calgary Department of Classics and Religion, Social Sciences Building, Room 558, 618 Campus Place N.W., Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada

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  - **A:** Hercules and the Birth of Roman Religion in Aeneid 8.184-279 takes place on Fri, 25 Oct, 2019 at 01:30 pm to Fri, 25 Oct, 2019 at 03:30 pm at University of Calgary Department of Classics and Religion, Social Sciences Building, Room 558, 618 Campus Place N.W., Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada.

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