VIRGIL: Re: Virgil and Dante

1999-09-18 Thread James Lewis
Randi Eldevik wrote: [snip] For my purposes, the Teutonic Knights and _all_ their activities are just another example of an arrogant approach to cultural hegemony that was all too common in Western Christianity during the Middle Ages; afterward, too. I might just as well have mentioned the

Re: VIRGIL: RE: Panegyric

1998-07-16 Thread James Lewis
At 12:46 PM -0400 7/16/98, Philip Thibodeau wrote: There's certainly no question that Donatus and Servius saw one of the most important purposes of the Aeneid to be praise of Augustus, but I think it important to keep in mind that they are advancing interpretations from a grammarian's point of

Re: VIRGIL: RE: Panegyric

1998-07-15 Thread James Lewis
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