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Vergil's Aeneid is very meta in its use of Homer and other older poetry. Does it do the same with the Epic Cycle?
The answer is: sort of. Vergil was certainly aware of the Epic Cycle -- but there's some reason to think that he never actually got to read it.
Re-recording for KZfaq of a paper given at the ASCS 41 Conference, Dunedin, NZ, Jan. 2020.
I also used some material in this paper in a piece on the Kiwi Hellenist website, at kiwihellenist.blogspot.com/202....