27;s not clear to me what
religious fanaticism has to do with any of this. Are you suggesting that
Eclogue 4 really is a prophecy of the birth of Christ?
Shawn Smith
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> Yes, Aeneas has to sacrifice much, including personal
> happiness; but that is the point, he *has to*, just as
> Agamemnon, faced with a choice, *had to* sacrifice his
> daughter. It is no use breezing in from another culture, or
> even some other point within the same culture, and saying on
en
we *should* compare Aeneas to Abraham, Gilgamesh, and Beowulf. And it would
be perverse to study medieval or Renaissance literature and ignore Aeneas's
function in Christian culture.
Shawn Smith
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