RE: VIRGIL: The three stags

2005-09-09 Thread Patrick Roper
in order to get closer to A? Patrick Roper --- To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message unsubscribe mantovano in the body (omitting the quotation marks

RE: VIRGIL: heroic verse

2004-08-11 Thread Patrick Roper
, you have probably seen): http://depts.washington.edu/versif/resources/pdf/E6.PDF Patrick Roper --- To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message

VIRGIL: Virgil's mother tongue

2004-05-18 Thread Patrick Roper
friend of mine) might know Welsh? Patrick Roper --- To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message unsubscribe mantovano in the body (omitting

VIRGIL: Virgil Roman history

2004-04-20 Thread Patrick Roper
I want to read one or two up to date books on the general history of Rome that might help to illuminate my enjoyment of Virgil. I would be grateful to subscribers for any suggestions or recommendations. Many thanks, Patrick Roper

RE: VIRGIL: Remember me?

2004-02-26 Thread Patrick Roper
not exactly the right age group). Patrick Roper

VIRGIL: Remember me?

2004-02-24 Thread Patrick Roper
into Dido's mouth (I tried to find such and failed)? Patrick Roper --- To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message unsubscribe mantovano in the body

RE: VIRGIL: Rome founded by Trojan women?

2003-05-06 Thread Patrick Roper
if this is so or if you have, indeed, forgotten something. Patrick Roper --- To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message unsubscribe mantovano

VIRGIL: Rome founded by Trojan women?

2003-05-05 Thread Patrick Roper
of this alternative version of the founding of Rome. Patrick Roper --- To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message unsubscribe mantovano in the body

RE: VIRGIL: Oaten music

2003-03-14 Thread Patrick Roper
of the great Roman writers. I am sure they did a bit more than compose for 'oaten pipes'. It is just that I would like to get some sort of mental picture of what sort of sound Amaryllis, for example, in Eclogue I might have been hearing. Patrick Roper

VIRGIL: Oaten music

2003-03-07 Thread Patrick Roper
sounded like? I ask partly because I heard someone on the radio today playing a Stone Age bone whistle and it made a very acceptable sound. Patrick Roper --- To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. Instead

RE: VIRGIL: Ugly reeds?

2003-02-13 Thread Patrick Roper
to find any specific references via the normal searches and I should be grateful if anyone could point me in the right direction if he did indeed mention the topic. Patrick Roper --- To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any

RE: VIRGIL: RE: Vergil's name

2002-08-06 Thread Patrick Roper
Patrick Roper This one isn't quite so obscure. I believe that the i spelling came to be in the 5th century AD (http://www.bartleby.com/65/ve/Vergil.html), when the Aeneid was used as a sort of magic 8-ball. People would randomly open the Aeneid and interpret the first line upon which their eyes

RE: VIRGIL: Your kind assistance, please (easy one)

2002-06-14 Thread Patrick Roper
identifications. See: http://www.lawphil.net/judjuris/juri1996/nov1996/gr_103134_1996.html Patrick Roper --- To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message

VIRGIL: Eclogue plants

2002-04-15 Thread Patrick Roper
at what these words might have meant? Patrick Roper --- To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message unsubscribe mantovano in the body (omitting

RE: VIRGIL: Gauguin and Cézanne

2002-04-03 Thread Patrick Roper
provençale. The full text is at: http://www.remue.net/cont/prigent02.html Patrick Roper --- To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message

RE: VIRGIL: Gauguin and Cézanne

2002-04-01 Thread Patrick Roper
There may be a clue here, though probably just coincidence. Cézanne was a great enthusiast for Delcroix and the latter painted Dante and Virgil in Hell, the former in a red cloak and Virgil in a blue one. Some details are here: http://www.uta.fi/FAST/BIE/BI5/lk-dela.html Patrick Roper

RE: VIRGIL: Helen's robe

2002-03-07 Thread Patrick Roper
' really a hendiadys?) I suspect all this was aimed at his friend and Classics tutor Horace Moule, rather than the general public whom he hoped would be reading his novel. Patrick Roper In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Patrick Roper [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes In chapter 12 of 'A Pair of Blue Eyes

VIRGIL: Helen's robe

2002-03-03 Thread Patrick Roper
/thomas_hardy/a_pair_of_blue_eyes/11/ (Join the link if it breaks in sending) Patrick Roper --- To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message unsubscribe

RE: VIRGIL: Re: Virgil's influence on medieval and renaissance writers

2002-02-26 Thread Patrick Roper
available in full. L.D. Reynolds tracks what was available when (insofar as our evidence shows): see his Texts and transmission : a survey of the Latin classics. Chretien was probably not an unusually learned fellow, but he appears to have known the big chestnuts. Patrick Roper Dear Manzer

VIRGIL: Upsurge of interest

2001-12-22 Thread Patrick Roper
, often in a very lively and accessible way, on TV and radio programmes, plus, of course, the amazing access to resources that the Internet has allowed. I think many others, like myself, agnosco veteris vestigia flammae and very enriching it is too as it underpins so much of our culture. Patrick Roper

RE: VIRGIL: Lumen Purpureum

2001-12-15 Thread Patrick Roper
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RE: VIRGIL: pronunciation of Virgil

2001-12-14 Thread Patrick Roper
and read them with attention and interest. Patrick Roper This discussion seems to be everywhere, also here in Germany. Some standards are so clear, that they might be out of discussion: In classical period (Cicero-time) c was always spoken as guttural explosive (in Germany: k) - absolutely

VIRGIL: Lumen purpureum

2001-12-14 Thread Patrick Roper
phrase 'lumen purpureum' signifying 'the light of love'. Can anyone tell where in Virgil this comes from and whether it was a general Roman expression, or one coined by V? And why was the 'light of love' thought to be purple? Patrick Roper

RE: VIRGIL: pronunciation of Virgil

2001-12-13 Thread Patrick Roper
done to him, or is this so unnatural that it would be better to read the material in translation? Patrick Roper In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Patrick Roper [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Many thanks for these interesting and helpful comments. My own favourite from Shakespeare is Much as the waves

RE: VIRGIL: pronunciation of Virgil

2001-11-14 Thread Patrick Roper
reasonably well-educated Roman contemporary with Virgil have picked up his works and said this is splendid stuff, I must read on or, more likely, this is all too difficult for me, I am going to stick with Ovid and Catullus? Patrick Roper Perhaps we should continue this debate privately, or over lunch

RE: VIRGIL: Critical approaches to Virgil

2001-11-12 Thread Patrick Roper
, D., Deviant Focalisation in Virgil's Aeneid, PCPS 36 (1990)? I found this via a web search and haven't a clue what PCPS is. Patrick Roper I am generally in favour of looking at ancient literature with modern methods: at least there is some useful terminology. I read an article recently

RE: VIRGIL: pronunciation of Virgil

2001-11-12 Thread Patrick Roper
the Aeneid. The fact that I remember this after 50 years is a testament to his teaching ability, but I still do not understand why he found it so fascinating and powerful. Can anyone enlighten me ('nox deruit' as one might say?) Patrick Roper From: Robert Dyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Also, I believe, L.P

RE: VIRGIL: 5-word hexameters

2001-11-10 Thread Patrick Roper
probably be completely unintelligeable to a Roman of the 1st century BC. Is there a generally accepted view of the way the language might have been spoken by Virgil? And is this recorded anywhere? Patrick Roper I have been re-reading Aeneid 8.306-341 and was struck by the 6 instances of 5

VIRGIL: Origin of Maro

2001-11-02 Thread Patrick Roper
it have a long and respectable history as a Roman name? If anyone wants to look at The Gododdin it is at: http://camelot.celtic-twilight.com/poetry/aneirin10.htm Patrick Roper --- To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do

RE: VIRGIL: why Virgil wanted to burn his poem

2001-10-18 Thread Patrick Roper
of his contemporaries say thaat of him? Patrick Roper --- To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message unsubscribe mantovano in the body

RE: VIRGIL: Re: Greek origins of the Irish?

2001-06-21 Thread Patrick Roper
understood the Celtic language(s) spoken there and been familiar with some of the traditional pan-Celtic stories. I would be most interested to know what current thinking is on this Celtic dimension of Virgil. Patrick Roper Subject: VIRGIL: Re: Greek origins of the Irish? Dear Virgilians, I hope

VIRGIL: Dido's lament

2001-05-29 Thread Patrick Roper
be nice if there were something from the lips of Dido. Patrick Roper --- To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message unsubscribe mantovano in the body