At 09:09 PM 7/5/98 +0000, you wrote: >I am not sure if we can discuss Cleopatra as a post-colonial situation. I >wonder if Cleopatra was simply worked up from a pre-existing fear of >foreign influence as a alternative focus of angst (to distract the Roman >mind from the fear of 'kings') or whether there was in fact a clear and >present dager from a resurgent Egypt. To what extent is Cleopatra made the >focus so as to drain the conflict of as much as possible of a 'civil war' >quality.
I have no problem with this. I am just interested in the contrast with Virgil's treatment of the Italians: the latter is "postcolonial" (in the sense that it is retrospective) and nice, whereas the former is contemporary and nasty. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- David Wilson-Okamura http://www.virgil.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Chicago Online Virgil discussion, bibliography & links ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message "unsubscribe mantovano" in the body (omitting the quotation marks). You can also unsubscribe at http://virgil.org/mantovano/mantovano.htm#unsub
