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Isn't this just the tired old T. S. Eliot/Warde Fowler school of the
Judeo-Christian Aeneas?
It's much older than that. Augustine read from the Aenied every morning and
The City of God shares the same Providential look at Rome as Haecker does.
I am aware that this is not a
Please send me your paper. I'd love to read it!
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Brian Gallagher
Boston University
Why are the deaths of Mezentius and Turnus not portrayed as heroic
victories for Aeneas. Mezentius is a scorner of the gods, yet Vergil
sets up his death so that the reader pities him. The same is true, in my
opinion, of Turnus's death. Why did Vergil choose to avoid a Hollywood
style mano
