El discurso de Jesús en la última cena (Cento Probae 589-598) : el nuevo héroe cristiano... : ¿a la medida de las expectativas virgilianas?

In this work we propose to analyze, specifically, the discourse of Jesus at the Last Supper in the CentoVergilianus de laudibus Christi (vv. 589-598), whose intertextual plot reveals Proba's skill and poetic audacity inliterary shaping the image of the new Christian “martyr hero” in the figure of Jesus, from Virgilian words, which revealhis “prophetic” character (according to the assessment that the late Antiquity made of Virgil), as possessor of the germsof the new and revolutionary heroic conception of Christian doctrine.

Our hypothesis proposes the existence of asemantic link, manifested through the intertextual plot, between the questions expressed by Virgil in relation to his own worldview and the new proposals of the Christian world view, which seem to give a surpassing response to those expectations of the pagan poet. [Publisher's text]