I'll help chaperone!
From: David Wilson-Okamura <[email protected]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
To: Mantovano <[email protected]>
Subject: VIRGIL: "Vergil's Garden" website
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 14:29:37 -0400
>No bites yet on nature in the Aeneid. But I did just receive notice
>of a new Georgics website:
>
>"Vergil's Garden" by Holt Parker
>http://classics.uc.edu/~parker/hortus/vergilsgarden.html
>"Vergil's Garden is an illustrated guide to the plants in Vergil's
>Georgics. I plan to expand the site later to include the Eclogues
>and Aeneid."
>
>Rationale:
>"My students and I are triply removed from Vergil's world. First,
>we are almost all city kids. We barely know a oak from an elm.
>Second, we're Americans. Even if we have some vague mental picture
>of a pine tree, we're probably thinking of an American Christmas
>tree, a scotch pine (Pinus sylvestris) or the like, and not what
>Vergil saw: pinus the huge, spreading Italian Umbrella Pine (Pinus
>pinea). Third, we're separated by time. We read rosa, but we think
>huge hybridized tea roses or long-stemmed Valentine roses the color
>of coagulated blood, rather than the simpler flower of Vergil's day.
>
>"This means that when we're reading Vergil, we look up ilex and we
>find "holmoak." All we've done is translate one word we don't know
>into another we don't know. The purpose of Vergil's Garden is to
>give us at least some idea for what Vergil saw and smelled and
>tasted and heard.
>
>"Ideally, of course, the only thing to do is for me and students to
>pack our copies of Vergil and go to Italy. We'd spend the mornings
>going to farms, parks, forests, and especially wineries, and the
>afternoons (post nap) reading Latin together. Donations are gladly
>accepted."
>
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>[email protected]
>English Department Virgil reception, discussion, documents,
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>East Carolina University Sparsa et neglecta coegi. -- Claude
>Fauchet
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