Maybe it would help to explain the difference by saying that the
interlocking pattern arises from propagating a pattern unit down the text,
whereas chiasmus arises from propagating a reflected or inverted version of
the unit:
ab + ab versus ab + ab(inverted) = ab + ba
Tim
...
This is probably not Virgil, since it's clearly the second line of an
elegiac couplet, but I've had no success in tracing the source of this
line. Help from a classicist will be much appreciated: "Sic mihi contingat
vivere sicque mori."
Simon Cauchi, Freelance Editor and Indexer, Hamilton, New Zea
How can I fully explain the difference in chiasmus and interlocked word
order? I have plenty of textbook definitions but a few of my students are
bent on confusing the two (especially it seems in Ovid). Any suggestions?
Thanks, Lorri
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From: "Jim O'Hara" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 10:55:49 -0500 (EST)
See Christine Perkell's Georgics book, which has much on pity in Geo. and
some on Aeneid; also her article in TAPA a few years ago on Eclogue 1
James J. O'Hara Jim O'Hara
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At 08:37 AM 2/24/99 -0600, Judy Conway wrote:
>Has anyone written about pity in the Aenied. There's Nisus and Euryalus and
>his mother, Dido of course, and a certain amount for Turnus. Any other
>suggestions?
You'll probably get a lot of advice on this, but here are a couple places
to look:
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From: "Judy Conway" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 08:20:49 -0500
Has anyone written about pity in the Aenied. There's Nisus and Euryalus and
his mother, Dido of course, and a certain amount for Turnus. Any other
suggestions?
Thank you
Judy Conway
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Many thanks to Peter for that bright start to the day. I can only
riposte with Porson's mnemonic for the cases of the gerund, in which too
the Latin words must be pronounced as if they were English:
When Dido saw Aeneas would not come,
She killed herself, and then was Di do dum.
Not perhaps in su
Dear Mantovani,
I am back online after four very frustrating
months.I
missed the Virgilian discussions more than I can say. To celebrate my
return from exile in the cultural wasteland
