At 09:09 PM 11/8/98 EST, Dick Miller wrote: >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.
His Virgil book is not to everyone's taste, but I thought Hardie's argument that both shields are images of cosmic order a convincing one. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
