For whatever it is worth, there are photographs of the interior and exterior
of 'Vergil's tomb' in
Carol Kidwell
Sannazaro and Arcadia
Duckworth, London, 1993
By the way, she also reproduces a woodcut from the 1574 edition of the
Italian translation of Sannazaro 'De Partu Virginis' which includes
In terms of late classical psychology, Fulgentius in Expositione
Virgilianae continentiae secundum philosophos moralis discussed the Aeneid
in this way in the fifth/sixth century.
HCOB
ulgentius, (Fabius Planciades Fulgentius) Opera, ed. Rudolf Helm,
Stuttgart,1970.
Expositione
For whatever it is worth I am sending the list a part of the handbook I am
working on - apologies to Leofranc since it does not necessarily reflect,
yet his valuabke suggestions and corrections.
Hagendahl (1958 and 1967) are still the standard studies of patristic
engagement with the
James was always good with the apt biblical quote - as was Sayers. A nice
ironic twist with the Stratagems - so very Jamesian.
It seems from the response that the sortes have dies out - or are people to
shy to discuss their present day use?
Helen Conrad-O'Briain
On this question, how many of you have known people who actually used
sortes with some degree of seriousness for any work, ie bible, Vergil,
Koran?
Helen Conrad-O'Briain
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In looking at Aeneas's killing of Turnus, I have had a few Sunday morning
level thoughts:
1. The relationship of Evander to Achises, Aeneas to Evander and Pallas to
Aeneas represents a typically Roman pattern of mutual support and
generational patronage which must re-inforce Aeneas's natural
