At 07:32 PM 7/11/99 +0100, you wrote: >This is the story that Aeneas (who felt under-valued by Priam, Iliad 13. >461, cf. Achilles' words to him at 20. 178-86) secured his escape from >Troy by handing the city over to the Greeks: see Menecrates of Xanthos >(Fragmente der griechischen Historiker 799 F 3 quoted by Dionysius of >Halicarnassus, _Roman Antiquities_ 1.48.3)> Greek writers made much of >it during the period of Roman conquest; see Casali's footnote in the >article I cited, Classical Quarterly, new series 49, 1999, 206 n. 6. >Dido, it is argued, had heard the story (the queen of Juno's city would >know all about Trojan crimes), and wishes she had remembered it at the >right time. There is of course no reason to take her view of the matter; >but it was a very well established story, mentioned more than once by >Servius.
T. C. Donatus also refers to it in the preface to his Interpretationes vergilianae, saying that it was an uphill battle to glorify Aeneas in light of all the slanders about his treachery; nevertheless, Virgil managed to pull it off. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- David Wilson-Okamura http://geoffreychaucer.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chaucer: an annotated guide to online resources ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
