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Isn't this just the tired old T. S. Eliot/Warde Fowler school of the
Judeo-Christian Aeneas?
It's much older than that. Augustine read from the Aenied every morning and
The City of God shares the same Providential look at Rome as Haecker does.
I am aware that this is not a
During the recent launch of Boston University's Dublin Internship
Program, Seamus Heaney read a new poem, a millenium piece entitled The
Bann Valley Eclogue based upon the prophetic Fourth Eclogue.
Does anyone know if Heaney's poem has been published yet, or if
so, where I can get
I'm interested in where Virgil wrote the Aeneid. I heard once
that he spent a lot of time in a library built by Augustus on the
Palatine, and that outside this library were 40 yellow marble columns each
topped with one of the 40 sisters who planned to kill their husbands
(forgive me, I
I now agree that the Aeneid wasn't favored over other epics during the
Middle Ages due to any reflections on the morality of force that seem
apparent in it today. In fact, even the most devout early Christians, I
believe , would not make the ana lysis of the Aeneid that some do today.
Citing
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
Please send me your paper. I'd love to read it!
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Brian Gallagher
Boston University
