RE: VIRGIL: Aeneas/Traitor                   2/2/99
Re. Aeneas as traitor you might wish to see further Servius ad 1. 488 (if you 
haven't already).
Alden Smith

Raymond Cormier wrote:
>       In response to Gert De Ceukelaire
>query in re: Jacob von Maerlant's
>Middle Dutch *Aeneid* --
>       I suspect there is little doubt >that this tradition emphasizing the 
> >treachery of both Aeneas and Antenor >arises from the Dares and Dictys 
> tradition.
>       To Dares the Phyrgian is assigned
>the prose *De excidio Troiae historia* >(5th-6th c. A.D.?), and to Dictys of 
>Crete >2nd-3rd c.?) the *Ephemeris belli Troiani*.
>       Each of these pretends to be eye-
>winess accounts, with greater claims to
>authenticity over Homer, thus explaining
>(if only in part) their enormous popularity >with medieval Troy-saga authors.
>       Prof. De Ceukelaire would do well
>to check out the probable influence of Benoit >de Sainte More's *Roman de 
>Troie* upon
>von Maerlant's version.
>       ...Of which important text I certainly >hope he will be providing 
> modern scholars >with a new annotated edition and facing >translation in the 
> near future! >   R.C.
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