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Entitled “the pictures of Juno’s temple and the troJan cycle: image and epic memory in the Architecture of the Aeneid”, this dissertation focus on the relations between this literary piece of work and the Trojan cycle inspired in the episode of the paintings of Juno’s temple (i, v. 450-493). Despite the extensive bibliography about the Virgilian studies, this issue has not been given appropriate attention throughout the years. In order to lay the foundations of these relations, the first chapter of this study presents an analysis and a reconstitution of the Trojan cycle lost poems (Cypria, Aethiopis, Little Iliad, Sack of Ilion, Returns and Telegony). The second and third chapters deal with four propositions: the pictures of Juno’s temple specially evoke some poems from the Trojan cycle (cap. Ii. 1); The images are disposed in conformity with this evocation (chapter ii. 2); in the composition of this episode, rhetoric theory of the art of memory is used and illustrated (chapter ii. 3); the sequence of evoked cyclic poems is continued in the first six books and being so plays some important role in the architecture of The Aeneid (chapter III). The investigations developed to demonstrate these propositions have revealed a dialogue consciously woven with the poems of this cycle and, therefore, propitiate the conveyance of new meanings in the reading of the Aeneid. With such proceeding Virgil not only revive the memory of the saga of Troy, in which his epic is contextualized, but he also “reedit” the Trojan cycle, this time, revolving around aeneas.