I am rather curious of his alluding to the homeric poems with his characterization of women. He seems to use Kalypso and Penelope a lot in his poems. If anyone has any thoughts on this let me know
jennifer At 01:39 PM 11/5/98 +0000, you wrote: > Women in Virgil 11/5/98 >Dear Heidi, > >I'm afraid you've asked a very large question. I have spoken a little to this question in my book, which you may know (Poetic Allusion and Poetic Embrace in O and V). That Virgil, to me, is a sympathetic and compelling writer is evident from his narrative. His women are convincing portraits, noble and real. >Hope this helps. > >Alden Smith > > > > >92DEVLINH wrote: >>Hi, >> I'm from the UK, and I've just discovered your site. How about this for >>discussion - How does Virgil view women in the Aeneid? I'd be interested to >>know your opinions and thoughts! >> >>>From Heidi - UK >>----------------------------------------------------------------------- >>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 >> >>RFC822 header >>----------------------------------- >> >> Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Received: from ccis08.baylor.edu (ccis08.baylor.edu [129.62.1.2]) >> by ccis01.baylor.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAA22349 >> for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 09:28:42 -0600 (CST) >> Received: from wilsoninet.com by baylor.edu (PMDF V5.1-10 #27028) >> with ESMTP id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 09:28:37 CST >> Received: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) by wilsoninet.com (8.8.5) id HAA06023; Thu, >> 05 Nov 1998 07:18:46 -0700 (MST) >> Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 11:44:32 +0000 >> From: 92DEVLINH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Message-id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> MIME-version: 1.0 >> X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1160 >> Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 >> Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit >> Precedence: bulk >> X-MSMail-Priority: Normal >> X-Authentication-warning: wilsoninet.com: Host >> station1.rochester-grammar.kent.sch.uk [212.207.20.130] claimed to be >> server1.rochester-girls-grammar.kent.sch.uk >> X-Priority: 3 >> Status: > > >----------------------------------------------------------------------- >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 > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
