I seem to remember that this is one of the things discussed in the
great Knauer tome.
Yours,
yn
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 15:04:21 -0500
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From: Donka Markus [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: VIRGIL: Re: the death of young warriors
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Could someone on this list help me locate what has been written about the
death of young warriors as a motif in Roman literature? Thanks. D.Markus.
Petrini, Mark, The child and the hero: coming of age in Catullus and Vergil
(Ann Arbor, 1997) (Nisus Euryalus, Marcellus, Pallas, Ascanius; plus