I was reading the ships-to-sea-nymphs bit of Aeneid IX with my GCSE (clever 14-year-olds) set today; and told them to go away and think about why it's rather strange, and why Virgil might have included it. I've read Williams in Harrison's Oxford Readings . . . ; but I wondered if anyone had other insights to add.(I'm also looking at Hardie's article on the mutability of Rome in Powell (ed) Roman Poetry and Propaganda in the age of Augustus)
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