Daedalus is like Aeneas: they have both crossed the seas to get to Cumae and suffered loss on the way. Daedalus is like Vergil: they both depict 'error' and pity 'magnum reginae amorem'. The doors at the start of book 6 are related to the gates at the end. There is a new book by Michael Punam called 'Vergil's Epic Designs' (YaleUP 1998); it has a chapter on Daedalus. Damien Nelis.
---------- >From: Leofranc Holford-Strevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: VIRGIL: VERGIL: ekphrasis in Book VI >Date: Mon, Mar 8, 1999, 10:02 > >In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Clare >Studwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >>I brought up this question about a week ago about the ekphrasis in Book VI >>(lines 20-36) of Vergil's Aeneid. Unfortunately I received NO responses. If >>you have any opinion on the role of this ekphrasis on the temple doors which >>Daedalus created, please let me know. >> >>Thanks. Clare > >I had been meaning to find a moment to think about the passage, but for >the time being: a journey through the air counterpoises one to the >underworld; and the ekphrasis before this major episode recalls that >before another, in Carthage. Quite inadequate, but perhaps it will >stimulate someone else, like the crystal that seeds a supersaturated >solution into precipitating. > >Leofranc Holford-Strevens >*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_* > >Leofranc Holford-Strevens >67 St Bernard's Road usque adeone >Oxford scire MEVM nihil est, nisi ME scire hoc sciat alter? >OX2 6EJ > >tel. +44 (0)1865 552808(home)/267865(work) fax +44 (0)1865 512237 >email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) > >*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_* >----------------------------------------------------------------------- >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
