Thank you Mr. Holford-Strevens for the book references concerning
Siro and his Epicurean circle. I have started tracking down the articles
and books you had recommended. I enjoyed as well the spirit of your
reply, which I understood to be a caveat against associating Virgil too
closely with any
Thanks for the note you sent. This is not the first time this particular
student
has asked for help. I was going to suggest to her that she read Vergil
directly,
but I didn't even want to spend my time doing that.
Robin Mitchell-Boyask wrote:
> Jim is being way too kind. The student should fi
Did you look in Libellus at Univ. of Washington? They should have an ftp
version.
Minna Duchovnay
David Wilson-Okamura wrote:
> 1. Some of you will have noticed that the reply-to domain name on Mantovano
> has changed to virgil.org. The old address should work for awhile as well,
> but I hope ev
Jim is being way too kind. The student should first read the Aeneid and do
some thinking on his or her own, before asking a question that looks a bit
too much like a student trolling for other profs to do the work.
>read dfc feeney, the gods in epic, chapter on aeneid, on allecto
>
>
>>I have a
read dfc feeney, the gods in epic, chapter on aeneid, on allecto
>I have a question that I hope all of you can help me with ASAP. It is for an
>essay that I am doing. I have to identify Allecto, and discuss her demonic
>character, and how it contributes to the Aeneid, in book 7. I have to back
I have a question that I hope all of you can help me with ASAP. It is for an
essay that I am doing. I have to identify Allecto, and discuss her demonic
character, and how it contributes to the Aeneid, in book 7. I have to back up
my arguments by citing specific lines of bk7... Can anyone help wi
>For the last couple of days I have been reading what renaissance
>commentators had to say on Marcellus. This morning I decided to see what a
>non-Virgil commentator had to say about Marcellus.
>
>(I was helped, by the way, in picking one out by Jacobus Pontanus, whose
>1599 ed. of Virgil's opera d
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter Bryant
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>As an Easter greeting to the Mantovani, I present an extract from the
>"Christiad" ("Virgilii evangelisantis Christiados libri XIII. In quibus
>omnia qu de Domino nostro Iesu Christo in Utroque Testamento, vel dicta
>vel
