There is a very good article by Roman Nisbet (in the Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies or in the Proceedings of the Virgil Society?) on Aeneas as a Roman imperator. Francis Cairns in his Virgil's Augustan Epic discusses Aeneas in the light of kingship theory, i.e. he embodies the qualities (listed by Cairns) of an ideal king. D.P. Nelis ---------- >From: JAMES C Wiersum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: VIRGIL: Aeneas as a trusted leader >Date: Tue, Apr 13, 1999, 19:43 >
> I'm a bicyclist and on my days off I do some long rides and some >"long" thinking. It came to me one day pushing up a hill that Aeneas is >presented differently from other leaders. If you take the supreme >paradigm, "The Iliad," Agamemnon is not a trusted leader; Agamemnon is >criticized in numerous ways; Agamemnon's troops are a divided bunch when >it comes to his decisions. Aeneas, though, is trusted -- or so it >seems.There does not appear to be a Thersites in the Aeneid. > If Aeneas is "driven by fate," his followers are driven by >Aeneas. They seem to follow where he goes without ever questioning. >Aeneas, as far as I can tell, is never criticized. Virgil departs here >from the Homeric pattern. I find this curious. I find this very thought >provoking. > I would like to know what the rest of you think in regards to how >Aeneas is presented as a leader. I would like to know what the rest of >you think as to why Virgil presented Aeneas in this way. Is Aeneas' >leadership presented by Virgil as a new kind of leadership? Why do >Aeneas' followers follow him with so much trust? > >James C. Wiersum > >___________________________________________________________________ >You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. >Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html >or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] >----------------------------------------------------------------------- >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 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
