I consider the famous passages in book six when Anchises shows Aeneas the future Romans to be a parrallel to the shield scene. Here, as with the shield, A. sees what will be the future of his line, but has no real understanding of it. His greatest reactions are wonder and amazement, but in both cases he accepts the burden of what he is shown.
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Nov 08 09:37:37 1998 >Received: from [192.41.8.139] by hotmail.com (1.0) with SMTP id MHotMail30879994542763506532499322391463545190; Sun Nov 08 09:37:37 1998 >Received: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) by wilsoninet.com (8.8.5) id KAA01635; Sun, 8 Nov 1998 10:02:16 -0700 (MST) >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1998 11:56:53 EST >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Subject: VIRGIL: Virgil's Aenied and his shield >Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII >Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit >X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 214 >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Precedence: bulk >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >At the end of Book 8 in the Aeneid, Venus asks Vulcan to make a suit of armor >for Aeneas. One of the items of the armor is a shield depicting certain future >glories of Roman history. These include Romulus and Remus, the banishment of >Tarquin the Proud, the punishment of Cataline and the Battle of Actium. >Aeneas is grateful and proud to wear this armor although he does not know the >meanings of the evens shown on the shield. Are there any parallels elsewhere >in the epic which might illuminate this scene? >----------------------------------------------------------------------- >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 ______________________________________________________ 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
