Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 15:31:24 +0200 From: "Jorge Fernandez Lopez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>At 10:39 PM 7/14/98 +0000, Yvan Nadeau wrote: >>The problem about email is that it induces action rather than >>reflection. I think I shall give it up. > >I'm not sure it's any worse than conversation in that regard, but I think >Yvan's right about the epic/panegyric distinction: it probably didn't >exist. T. C. Donatus thinks the best way to explain the Aeneid is as >sustained piece of epideictic rhetoric. Servius thinks that Virgil's >intention was to imitate Homer and praise Augustus through his ancestors. >Both commentators postdate Virgil by a few centuries, but they were closer >to the world of ancient literary criticism than we are. Just a comment: Though Donatus and Servius were temporally closer to Virgil, maybe such closeness prevented them from examinating Virgil with a certain perspective; and they were no doubt biased by the identification literature=rhetoric that made them conceive any written work as something classified within the frame of rhetorical categories. Dr. Jorge Fernandez Lopez Departamento de Filologias Hispanica y Clasicas Ciguena, 60 Universidad de La Rioja 26005 Logrono (SPAIN) Tel. (34) 941 299407 Fax (34) 941 299419 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message "unsubscribe mantovano" in the body (omitting the quotation marks). You can also unsubscribe at http://virgil.org/mantovano/mantovano.htm#unsub
