BG scripsit:
>I suggest Theodore Haecker's "Virgil: Father of the West". There's a good
>chapter there about how Aeneas and Odysseus are quite dissimilar figures.
>Also (the best part) explains (in ecstasy almost) how Aeneas is in fact most
>similar to Abraham, the founder of the faith.
>It's a 19
Is it allowed to promote oneself? I have written a study of the Aeneas in
Latium legend, in which I argue for the fundamental difference of the Latin
hero who was identified with the Greek Aineias, and Aineias himself. It is
called GODS OF THE WEST I: INDIGES, and it is available for 18 euros
"Founder of the faith"? Which faith? Certainly not Aeneas's faith.
Isn't this just the tired old T. S. Eliot/Warde Fowler school of the
Judeo-Christian Aeneas?
Shawn Smith
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Shawn Smith
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Department of English and Modern La
