I am still digesting the material which has come down the line from
Leofranc et al. on this topic, but I would like to throw in one small
caveat, leaving sympathy and emotion aside, there is a developing idea of
natural law/justice versus custom or the law of individual nations, which
I believe
I think what we see here is the historically observable tendency for the
'leading' genre of a period to subsume roles and even other genres. Epic
had a head start on this since ancient theorists apparently derived most
other genres from the epic - even pastoral.
HCOB
After reading all of the replies, I find that one name is conspicuously absent
from the list--Dr. Holford Strevens, a man whose commentary is often
delightfully instructive and insightful. I for one would like to read what he
might have to say about IV.
Please, Sir, may I have some more . . .
This explanation is interesting,but a bit cryptic. Could you expand?
Robin Kornman
In the Eudemian Ethics (1219b) Aristotle distinguishes between encomium,
praise and felicitation:
dio heteron eudaimonismos kai epainos kai enko:mion. to men gar
enko:mion logos tou kath' hekaston ergou, ho d'
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 view. And the grammarians tend to be very
sympathetic
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
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The problem about email is that it induces action rather than
reflection. I think I shall give it up.
I'm not sure it's any worse than conversation in that regard,
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At 1:25 PM -0400 7/15/98, 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
means? I didn't think so, but am happy to stand
corrected.
The problem about email is that it induces action rather than
reflection. I think I shall give it up.
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At 10:39 PM 7/14/98 +, Yvan Nadeau wrote:
The problem about email is that it induces action rather than
reflection. I think I shall give it up.
I'm not sure it's any worse than conversation in that regard, but I think
Yvan's right about the epic/panegyric distinction: it probably didn't
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