In a message dated 11/8/98 7:57:24 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< I consider the famous passages in book six when Anchises shows Aeneas the future Romans to be a parrallel [sic] to the shield scene. Here, as with the shield, A. sees what will be the future of his line, but has no real understanding of it. His greatest reactions are wonder and amazement, but in both cases he accepts the burden of what he is shown. >> A very solid observation. Thank you. Another rewarding bit of study is to look at the prototype of the Shield of Aeneas, the Shield of Achilles at Iliad 18.478-607. I don't think the two shields will bear too much comparison, though, since Homer's is a transcendental paradigm of right and wrong human life (an Eighth Century BCE poetic videotape with color and sound, yet), while Vergil's, let us say, serves his Augustan purpose. Dick Miller ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
