At 03:30 PM 11/16/98 -0500, you wrote:
>>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.
In addition to the items Prof. O'Hara pointed out, you might look at Gian
Biagio Conte on the mors immatura topos in The Rhetoric of Imitation: Genre
and Poetic Memory in Virgil and Other Latin Poets, tr. Susan George et al.,
Cornell Studies in Classical Philology (Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1986), ch. 6
("The Baldric of Pallas: Cultural Models and Literary Rhetoric").
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