RE: VIRGIL: (no subject)
Yes, certainly, but I didn't mention LOTR because someone else already had. RE On Tue, 4 May 1999, David Wilson-Okamura wrote: From: Adrian Pay [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 21:32:22 +0100 And in the same vein Tolkien's Lord of the Rings? Adrian Pay 70 Dalling Road Hammersmith London W6 0JA 0181 846 9355 (Home) 07801 342 182 (Mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: RANDI C ELDEVIK [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 1999 3:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: VIRGIL: (no subject) Odd as it might sound, I would suggest Richard Adams' _Watership Down_. While much epic energy may have been deflected away from the written word in the 2th century, there are still some epic writers left, and Adams at his best (he's very uneven, and has written some other books that are terribly infra dig) is one of them. Also, what about 20th c. war novels (WWI, WWII, etc.)? Randi Eldevik Oklahoma State University --- 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
VIRGIL: Extremus, Arethusa: Cicero, Vergil
Dear Mantovani, reading Cicero's Verr. 2,4,118 I came across the following: _in hac insula extrema est fons aquae dulcis, cui nomen Arethusa est, incredibili magnitudine, plenissimus piscium, qui fluctu totus operiretur, nisi munitione ac mole lapidum diiunctus esset a mari._ (Cicero describes the _insula_ which is a part of the city of Syracuse). Now, it brought to mind Verg. ecl. 10,1 (_Extremum hunc, Arethusa, mihi concede laborem_)--note the proximity of _extrema/extremum_ and _Arethusa_. How can we use this coincidence to interpret the ecl. 10? My contribution: The article in RE, and Clausens commentary ad loc, read together with Cicero, make one aware of the fact that the spring of Arethusa is, both in Theocritus' and Vergil's time, practically _in the middle of the city_ (and not just any city--something like ancient New York, geographically). Neven Zagreb, Croatia --- 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
