No bites yet on nature in the Aeneid. But I did just receive notice of a
new Georgics website:
Vergil's Garden by Holt Parker
http://classics.uc.edu/~parker/hortus/vergilsgarden.html
Vergil's Garden is an illustrated guide to the plants in Vergil's
Georgics. I plan to expand the site later to
I'm teaching vergil AP and was trying to use Ralph Johnson's idea of
the Aeneid as fiction not myth, that is, a quasi-novelistic questioning
of myth. My students wondered how Johnson relates to the rather heroic
(in all senses) interpretation of myth by the joseph campbell types. My
students
