Re: VIRGIL: REPLY REQUIRED: The Classics Pages SubscriptionVerify (fwd)
I'd like to know the same; esp. since my old e-mail address keeps popping up on these replies and I know I haven't sent them!!! -Original Message- From: James M. Pfundstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Friday, March 12, 1999 5:23 PM Subject: Re: VIRGIL: REPLY REQUIRED: The Classics Pages SubscriptionVerify (fwd) What is this stuff, and why do we get about ten of them a day? Curiously (not querulously), JMP At 11:34 PM -0800 3/8/1999, Jacqueline wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- 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 == :)DWBH! From Jacqueline/Percy. http://www.alphalink.com.au/~plants/hensenism/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (take your pick!) _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com --- 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 --- 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
Re: VIRGIL: paid for propaganda?
I've heqard in various readings that Virgil was actually receiving gold-pieces from Augustus, but I prefer to go along with a certain translator by the name of Guinach (sp.??) who stated in some pice I read that Virgil most likely was an ardent supporterof many of Augustus' s policies and sought to help promote the reconstructions of the State that Aug. had in mind. I do not at all think Virgil was a hireling, but believed that these ideas of Aug. were good for the State as a whole. Plus the work is to beautiful and inspiring to be a paid for work of propaganda. I think if he was paid he earned the money in what he would have wrote anyway!! I hope that helps, but I think people push things to far sometimes and should just look at the beauty in a piece of work and enjoy it and not try to tear it apart. But of course some of us who are students have to do just that. tear it apart and not enjoy it!! Kimber -Original Message- From: Rebecca Smyth [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, March 11, 1999 3:47 PM Subject: VIRGIL: paid for propaganda? Salvete! I read a suggestion that we should not believe that Virgil was a paid court poet writing propaganda for his patron. I'm not sure that I agree with this, but reflecting on it has brought several questions to my mind. Virgil's patron provided him with the leisure to write his poetry. Was the poet therefore showing his gratitude by writing propaganda? Was Virgil making the most of this opportunity to write his poetry at leisure? Did he really desire to promote Augustus, or was he trying to show how ridiculous the Emperor might be? Was the propaganda actually humourous? If anyone could help to settle my confusion, I would be very grateful. Rebecca Smyth Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com --- 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
