In the same spirit, the duel might be thought to represent both the actual battle with Antony at Actium and the duel that Imp. Caesar refused to fight and could not have fought without upsetting the fiction that the war was being fought not between himself and Antony but between Rome and Egypt.
Leofranc Holford-Strevens In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bob Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >Another possible angle could be the destruction of alternative routes >which Rome could take. Just as the different aspects of Dido are >refracted and split into Amata and Lavinia, so that the former can be >safely isolated and destroyed, while the latter remains as a tabula >rasa for the imprint of imperial destiny, so the duality of Aeneas in >Carthage - pius Octavian or decadent Antony - can be split into an >Augustan Aeneas whose Antonine qualities are displaced onto Turnus and >safely eliminated. > >Or maybe I'm getting carried away... > >Bob *_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_* Leofranc Holford-Strevens 67 St Bernard's Road usque adeone Oxford scire MEVM nihil est, nisi ME scire hoc sciat alter? OX2 6EJ tel. +44 (0)1865 552808(home)/267865(work) fax +44 (0)1865 512237 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) *_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_* ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
