>Could someone on this list help me locate what has been written about the >death of young warriors as a motif in Roman literature? Thanks. D.Markus.
Petrini, Mark, The child and the hero: coming of age in Catullus and Vergil (Ann Arbor, 1997) (Nisus & Euryalus, Marcellus, Pallas, Ascanius; plus Troilus in Book 1) Hardie, P.R. Virgil: Aeneid Book IX (Cambridge 1994) is also pretty good on this topic, in his intro and in his commentary on the Nisus and Euryalus passage Jim O'Hara James J. O'Hara Professor of Classical Studies & Chair Classical Studies Dept. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wesleyan University 860/685-2066 (fax: 2089) Middletown CT 06459-0146 Home Page: http://www.wesleyan.edu/classics/faculty/jim.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
