Palinurus may lose faith in Aeneas. That is the provocative reading of J.W.Hunt, Forms of Glory: Structure and Sense in Vergil's Aeneid. (The citation is from memory and may not be quite right.)
CP >>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 > Christine Perkell-Zarbin Classics Department 404 N. Callaway Center Emory University Atlanta, GA 30322 404-727-7938; fax 404 727 0223 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
