<x-html><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2614.3401" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">Randi makes an excellent point. It is slightly insane to generalize, but there is a strong pacifism among thinkers in our time which seriously distorts the interpretation of some texts. As I understand Virgil, he felt both compassion and aggression. He most certainly grieved for the victims of war, but he also fully accepted the satisfaction that Aeneas got from running Turnus through.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">Charles Skallerud</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">> This all started off in response to someone who assumed that recent<BR>> readings of Virgil as a sensitive, compassionate soul with moral qualms<BR>> about imperialism were present also in the minds of past readers, and<BR>> could account for the linkage between Virgil and medieval Christianity (as<BR>> though the medieval Church was always kind and gentle). I was trying to<BR>> explain that such an outlook (toward Christianity or toward the<BR>> _Aeneid_) was uncommon in earlier times. That's all.<BR>> Randi Eldevik<BR>> Oklahoma State University<BR> </FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> </x-html>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Sep 17 16:44:18 1999 >From mantovano-returns Fri Sep 17 12:52:21 1999 Received: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) by wilsoninet.com (8.8.5) id MAA13356; Fri, 17 Sep 1999 12:52:21 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 14:50:50 -0500 (CDT) From: RANDI C ELDEVIK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: VIRGIL: and Dante In-reply-to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Precedence: bulk Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-UIDL: c3f056f4095465cd824f775283e367b8
On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Charles Skallerud wrote: > > Randi makes an excellent point. It is slightly insane to generalize, but > there is a strong pacifism among thinkers in our time which seriously > distorts the interpretation of some texts. As I understand Virgil, he felt > both compassion and aggression. He most certainly grieved for the victims of > war, but he also fully accepted the satisfaction that Aeneas got from running > Turnus through. > > Charles Skallerud Well put. I'm glad I'm communicating clearly to someone. Thanks, Randi Eldevik Oklahoma State University ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
