At 02:03 AM 9/11/2002 +0000, you wrote: >I'm working on tacitus' use of furor in relation to Messalina (Claudius' >wife) and I remembered the Aeneid passage with Amata raging out of control >(like a top) in Aeneid 7. I seem to recall reading it as an undergrad over >20 years ago. Does anyone have any current thoughts on the role of Amata and >her madness (or, better yet, any images of it in medieval or modern art)?
Amata appears as an example of ungoverned anger in Purgatorio 17. Might look for her in illuminated Dante MSS. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- David Wilson-Okamura http://virgil.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] East Carolina University Virgil reception, discussion, documents, &c ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
