Thomas Coens schrieb: > in Homer time is cyclical (images of the wheeling heavens, the > changing seasons, the people joining together in a circle); the > dilemma of the Homeric hero is timeless, eternally recurring. > By contrast, time on Aeneas' shield is linear. Events occur at a > determinable point in time; and the meaning of one event can only be > established by reference to what precedes and what follows it.
If time in Aeneas' shield is linear, this is an exception of all we know from Maro's "Lucretian" cosmology, specially from the famous hymn Bucolica (Ekloga) 4 with circles of nature, history, ages etc., and the reincarnation-circle of human lives in Aeneis 6 (pater Anchises: Roman heroes are the Troyan heroes, coming back to the earths surface), compare Cicero's Somnium Scipionis. It would also be an exception of all we know from ancient time-concept: aion is a time-circle, eis ai�nas t�n ai�n�n (in saecula saeculorum) is the formular conserved also in Christian leithourgeia (and Latin in the missa) for: into all time-circles of time-circles. An old fractal, seen in stars, planets, nature and biological rhythms, as we are told. Linear time - if this is to be found in a Vergilius-text, it would be a revolution! legamus comparemus examinamur! ich glaube sonst meinen eigenen Augen nicht! grusz, hansz ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
