RE:VIRGIL: Caesar, cold and isolated

2003-05-22 Thread serwickb
I do believe that there is much to say about the nuances of Virgil's words. My argument on the Aeneid, is that much of it is really anti-Augustan, though it comes off on the surface as propoganda for the principate. i wouldn't say it was necessarily republican, but anti-war in one of the

Re: VIRGIL: Caesar, cold and isolated

2003-05-22 Thread rdyer
I have been busy with other things - I hope the Hellenists and Byzantinists on this list know the excellent Suda On Line project on Stoa: http://www.stoa.org/sol/ I am just finishing a cluster of very time-consuming entries on Tyche and its related verbs in the 1700 years of Greek that the Suda

RE: VIRGIL: the anchises, aeneas group

2003-05-22 Thread Emma T.K. Guest-Consales
There are many representations of this group, both in monumental works and in manuscript and book illustration. What period are you interested in? I have to check my bib. then I'll send on some references. I'm working on Eclogue imagery, but there is a *lot* on A imagery of course. Emma Guest

Re: VIRGIL: the anchises, aeneas group

2003-05-22 Thread Leofranc Holford-Strevens
See too Jane Davidson Reid with Chris Rohmann, _The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1300-1990s_, 2 vols. (New York and Oxford), 1993, vol. i, pp. 43-5, covering all the arts. Leofranc Holford-Strevens In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Johan Hanselaer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes In A.

VIRGIL: the anchises, aeneas group

2003-05-22 Thread Dave Emes
Besides Raphael's painting Fire in the Borgo, Bernini's sculpture Aeneas, Anchises, and Ascanius, and Preti's painting Aeneas, Anchises, and Ascanius Fleeing Troy, what other artists in what works have employed this subject? Thanks for any help. Ex animo, David Emes