Psalm 24 and 84 and many more; compare David's wish, to build a temple for JHWH and the answer of JHWH: "Not you build a house for me, but I do for you!"
And of course (more near to Vergil) Cicero, Somnium Scipionis: the cosmos and hes spheres as the temple of the unmoved moving god. grusz, hansz Neven Jovanovic schrieb: > 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 > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 Hans Zimmermann http://home.t-online.de/home/ravenn/met12-2.htm http://home.t-online.de/home/euangeleion/parabola.htm http://home.t-online.de/home/hanumans/index.htm ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
