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Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 10:54:34 -0700
Philip Thibodeau wrote:
do people believe Vergil could foresee how much his readers would
care about Dido, for example?
Because there were famous antecedents for Dido in literature, it seems
On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Philip Thibodeau wrote:
And whenever we want we can turn back the page and be with Dido or
Pallas or whoever while they're still alive. So my question for the list
would be, do people believe Vergil could foresee how much his readers would
care about Dido, for example?
One problem I hav ejust discovered with the thesis you proposed is
that it is impossible to say that Virigl wrote the Aneneid
because of Caeser Augustus becuase there is no written sources for
evidence of what Vrigl's motives were for written the epic.
Love
Betseyz
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Michael Ehrman
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I'm am working on a research paper that hopes to arrive at some
conclusion that relates Augustus patronage of Vergil to the Aeneid. My
feeling is that one of the purposes of writing the Aeneid was so that
the Romans could
