My class will be reading the beginning of G. 3 next week... Preparing for this event, I began to wonder what literary parallels there are for comparing a work of art to a building/temple (Octavian's temple > the Aeneid). I read Thomas' commentary, mentioning fragmentary evidence for Callimachus -- but is there anything better documented? No influence on -- or by -- Virgil is required, it does not even have to be an example from antiquity; I would just like to have something to clarify this idea / move. What comes to a wandering mind is the Gospel, Jesus speaking of himself as the Temple... Also, another question--how do you feel the sport events fit into the temple/Aeneid metaphor? Neven
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