Compare also the temple carvings in Book I, about line 450 and following, for a retrospective visual representation in which A. sees the images of where he came from (fall of Troy), rather than where he is going. For Virgil's 'pictoral verse'(that is, vivid description of a visual artistic representation)compare Book VI, line 15 and following (Daedalus ut fama est..), describing the temple built by Daedalus--beautiful Latin!.
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Nov 08 18:34:35 1998 >Received: from [192.41.8.139] by hotmail.com (1.0) with SMTP id MHotMail30880316716713506532502322391463536750; Sun Nov 08 18:34:35 1998 >Received: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) by wilsoninet.com (8.8.5) id TAA06425; Sun, 8 Nov 1998 19:10:43 -0700 (MST) >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1998 21:09:30 EST >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Subject: Re: VIRGIL: Virgil's Aeneid 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] > >In a message dated 11/8/98 7:57:24 PM Eastern Standard Time, >[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > ><< I consider the famous passages in book six when Anchises shows Aeneas > the future Romans to be a parrallel [sic] 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. > >> >A very solid observation. Thank you. Another rewarding bit of study is to look >at the prototype of the Shield of Aeneas, the Shield of Achilles at Iliad >18.478-607. I don't think the two shields will bear too much comparison, >though, since Homer's is a transcendental paradigm of right and wrong human >life (an Eighth Century BCE poetic videotape with color and sound, yet), while >Vergil's, let us say, serves his Augustan purpose. >Dick Miller >----------------------------------------------------------------------- >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
