Homer's heros are all about killing? This is surely a knee-jerk interpretation. Do pride, sorrow, regret, craft, physical strength, love of family, and desire for glory all amount to 'killing' in your opinion? What, also, could be more human than these (is there not a little Achilles in all of us?). It is a combination of many attributes which detirmines who the "best of the Acheans" is. Conversely, I'm not going to say that Aeneas is 'all about killing,' but he does do his share of it. Heroism is a many faceted issue, indeed. Perhaps it cannot be categorized with one word.
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Nov 11 07:18:59 1998 >Received: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) by wilsoninet.com (8.8.5) id HAA11964; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 07:48:47 -0700 (MST) >Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >From: "Riffet Fozia Shaheen Mohammed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Organization: Newman College of HE (student) >To: "judy weng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 14:37:56 +0000 >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII >Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT >Subject: Re: VIRGIL: heroism in Aeneid >X-Confirm-Reading-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >X-pmrqc: 1 >Priority: normal >In-reply-to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.54) >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Precedence: bulk >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >hi there >about heroismin aeneid- i have been doing some work on heroes in >aeneid and milton's paradise lost. the interesting thing i've >discovered is the difference of virgil's hero. he is not like those >of homer ie that they are all about killing. infact aeneas is more >human, as we see different characteristics. >hope this helps. >Riff > > >> From: "judy weng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: VIRGIL: heroism in Aeneid >> Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 14:18:28 PST >> Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> >> 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 > ______________________________________________________ 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
