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<P>I'm afraid I posted this message twice, but I made three mistakes the first
time I sent it: (1) it was adressed to the listowner (2) I used with my wife's
account instead of my own (3) I only sent the message itself without greetings.
I apologise for any inconvenience.</P>
<P>For several years I have worked on Jacob of Maerlant's Middle Dutch
adaptation of Virgil's Aeneid. Unfortunately I was never able to finish my
work,
but I still kept an interest in mediaeval as well as classical
literature.
One of the problems I was confronted with at the time, was the way in which the
Middle Dutch author tried to reconcile the different versions of the Fall of
Troy, i.e: did Aeneas betray his city or didn't he? This matter also involved
the question if Virgil knew of any traditions regarding the Fall of Troy other
than the one he followed. On several occasions Servius strongly suggests that
Virgil was aware of the tradition according to which the Fall of Troy was
caused
not by the ruse with the wooden horse, but by treachery of Aeneas and Antenor
(Commentaries on A. 1,242, 1,488, 1,647, 2,15). These are of course
misinterpretations by Servius of some lines in the Aeneid, but is there in fact
any evidence that this originally Greek tradition was known to Virgil or to any
other Roman author of his time?</P>
<P>Gert De Ceukelaire</P></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>
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Gert,
You might want to look at
Fromm, Hans. "Eneas der Verr�ter". In: Johannes Janota et al., Hgg.
Festschrift Walter Haug und Burghart Wachinger. Bd. 1. T�bingen:
Niemeyer, 1992: 139-163.
Fromm unravels the whole tradition, resp. the strings of conflicting
traditions, with ample footnotes. His target text is Heinrich von Veldeke's
Eneasroman, so he doesn't go quite as far as Jacob von Maerlant, but you
will find the entire classical corpus included.
Susanne Hafner
Universitaet Hamburg
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