Dear Judy, this is probably totally daft and will earn you a bad mark from your teachers, who are, one may assume, very traditional and stick-in-the- mud in their attitudes (stick-in-the-mud is a virtue, by the way), but I would have thought a good place to start would be the description of Achilles' shield in Homer compared with the description of Aeneas' shield in the Aeneid.
yn > I guess one should concentrate on where the difficulties of heroism come > out most noticeably, namely in the deaths of Hector and Turnus and how the > 'heroic' values of their killers differ or are similar. Obviously, Aeneas > is more problematic with his cold-blooded vengeance, but Achilles' abuse of > Hector's body raises questions about the heroic model too. > Virgil mainatins the ambiguity most brilliantly by leaving us with that > image in the final lines, while Achilles' reconciliation with Priam somehow > resolves what went wrong, though not entirely > > ---------- > > From: judy weng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: VIRGIL: heroism in Aeneid > > Date: Thursday, November 05, 1998 10:18 PM > > > > > > Can anyone please help me with my essay? The question is that "How do > > Homer and Vergil maintain the ambiguity of traditional heroism? What > > effect does it have?" > > Please reply me as soon as possible because my paper is due 11/9, any > > short answer or idea will be helpful. > > Thank you > > > > Sincerely, > > Judy > > > > ______________________________________________________ > > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > Yvan Nadeau [EMAIL PROTECTED] 0131-650-3575 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
