Hi, I'm a South African Latin student, and I have a project/assignment to do which is fascinating me. I'd appreciate any ideas on my topic.
I have to start off by showing how the Aeneid is an example of Roman Epic poetry of Vergil's times, and give the basic characteristics of epic poetry. That's the easy part. The twist is that I then have to go on to compare the epic of Roman times to how WE perceive epic today. Thus, I have to show how Titanic, the film, is an example of our modern-day epic, and show the similarities and differences. (An obvious difference is that the medium is totally different, i.e. visual, video etc. More subtle differences are going to be the hero of the story and so on.) If anyone has any interesting ideas, please mail me! Thanks Shelly Delbridge Cape Town South Africa ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
