Could someone on this list help me locate what has been written about the
death of young warriors as a motif in Roman literature? Thanks. D.Markus.
Petrini, Mark, The child and the hero: coming of age in Catullus and Vergil
(Ann Arbor, 1997) (Nisus Euryalus, Marcellus, Pallas, Ascanius; plus
Why are the deaths of Mezentius and Turnus not portrayed as heroic
victories for Aeneas. Mezentius is a scorner of the gods, yet Vergil
sets up his death so that the reader pities him. The same is true, in my
opinion, of Turnus's death. Why did Vergil choose to avoid a Hollywood
style mano
