RE: VIRGIL: "Vergil's Garden" website

[Virginia F Fitzpatrick]

I'll help chaperone!




From:  David Wilson-Okamura Reply-To:  mantovano@virgil.orgTo:  Mantovano Subject:  VIRGIL: "Vergil's Garden" websiteDate:  Thu, 08 Sep 2005 14:29:37 -0400>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 include the Eclogues >and Aeneid.">>Rationale:>"My students and I are triply removed from Vergil's world.  First, >we are almost all city kids.  We barely know a oak from an 
elm.  >Second, we're Americans.  Even if we have some vague mental picture >of a pine tree, we're probably thinking of an American Christmas >tree, a scotch pine (Pinus sylvestris) or the like, and not what >Vergil saw: pinus the huge, spreading Italian Umbrella Pine (Pinus >pinea).  Third, we're separated by time.  We read rosa, but we think >huge hybridized tea roses or long-stemmed Valentine roses the color >of coagulated blood, rather than the simpler flower of Vergil's day.>>"This means that when we're reading Vergil, we look up ilex and we >find "holmoak."  All we've done is translate one word we don't know >into another we don't know.  The purpose of Vergil's Garden is to >give us at least some idea for what Vergil saw and smelled and 
>tasted and heard.>>"Ideally, of course, the only thing to do is for me and students to >pack our copies of Vergil and go to Italy.  We'd spend the mornings >going to farms, parks, forests, and especially wineries, and the >afternoons (post nap) reading Latin together.  Donations are gladly >accepted.">>--->Dr. David Wilson-Okamurahttp://virgil.org  >david@virgil.org>English Department  Virgil reception, discussion, documents, >&c>East Carolina UniversitySparsa et neglecta coegi. -- Claude 
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VIRGIL: "Vergil's Garden" website

[David Wilson-Okamura]

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 include the Eclogues and 
Aeneid."


Rationale:
"My students and I are triply removed from Vergil's world.  First, we 
are almost all city kids.  We barely know a oak from an elm.  Second, 
we're Americans.  Even if we have some vague mental picture of a pine 
tree, we're probably thinking of an American Christmas tree, a scotch 
pine (Pinus sylvestris) or the like, and not what Vergil saw: pinus the 
huge, spreading Italian Umbrella Pine (Pinus pinea).  Third, we're 
separated by time.  We read rosa, but we think huge hybridized tea roses 
or long-stemmed Valentine roses the color of coagulated blood, rather 
than the simpler flower of Vergil's day.


"This means that when we're reading Vergil, we look up ilex and we find 
"holmoak."  All we've done is translate one word we don't know into 
another we don't know.  The purpose of Vergil's Garden is to give us at 
least some idea for what Vergil saw and smelled and tasted and heard.


"Ideally, of course, the only thing to do is for me and students to pack 
our copies of Vergil and go to Italy.  We'd spend the mornings going to 
farms, parks, forests, and especially wineries, and the afternoons (post 
nap) reading Latin together.  Donations are gladly accepted."


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Dr. David Wilson-Okamurahttp://virgil.org  david@virgil.org
English Department  Virgil reception, discussion, documents, &c
East Carolina UniversitySparsa et neglecta coegi. -- Claude Fauchet
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