<< message forwarded by listowner >> Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 19:47:45 -0500 From: "Bruce R. Magee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Aeneas (& Virgil) probably weren't as stoic as some have though. The expression of emotion (outside of stoicism) was not seen as a necessarily bad thing. In the _Iliad_, Achilles' big breakthrough comes when he & Priam cry together. He has finally recognized that he & his enemy share a common humanity. Aeneas' heroism could be questioned on other grounds, such as his abandonment of Dido. Katie Rae Gregory wrote: > Whomever- > The Aeneid by Virgil has undergone some critizism: > 1. Propoganda > 2. Imitates Homer > 3. Aeneas is unhoroic > It is critizim #3 that I am interested in. I'm curious as to what the group > thinks. Does his tender heart, which often times leads to tears, make him more > or less of a hero? If he is as hero, why? If he isn't, Why? > Just to get you thinking, for example, when Aeneas sees the frieze of the Trojan > war and weeps, in modern times is Aeneas still a hero? That is just one example > I could think of off the top of my head. My emial address is > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > THANKS ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
