VIRGIL: Vergil's birthplace

[Leofranc Holford-Strevens]

Horsfall in his _Companion_ writes: 'That he was a native of Mantua is a 
deduction from the text', citing Brugnoli in Enciclopedia Virgiliana 5*. 
578; 'The claims of Andes (VSD 2), 30 MP from Mantua might be 
embroideries on the ground of Buc. 1.34, 9.6, 64'; he cites Heinrich 
Naumann, _Das altsprachliche Unterricht_, 24.5 (1981), 11, and for the 
distance observes (n. 36): '30, rather than 3 is pretty clearly what 
'Probus' wrote (L. Lehnus, _Scripta Philologa_ 3 (1982), 200f.) but the 
detail is anyway not even remotely reliable; Lehnus 197, after G. 
Jachmann, _Klio_ 35 (1942), 85f.'

Horsfall doesn't like believing things, but even if birth in Andes is no 
more than an inference from the lines cited that because the action 
takes place in a village some way from the town therefore Vergil was 
born there (and ancient biographers are certainly capable of such screwy 
thinking), the person who drew it must have known the area well enough 
to come up with the name. Perhaps you would like to tell us how far 
Andes really is from Mantua.

Leofranc Holford-Strevens

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Daniel Martín 
Mayorga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
This is my first day of subscriber / first message.

I've been visiting Mantova- Piedole- Andes area two weeks ago, standing 
in Corte Virgiliana (very reccommendable place). Of course I am 
familiarize with the Conway-Rand  controversy. But I don't know (and 
I'd like) if this discussion has had a continuation afterwards.


Andes as Vegil's birthplace is fully accepted today?


Thanks


Daniel Martin

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