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> It doe bring up something that has been bothering me for the last
>few months, having read Horsfall's hatchet job on the lives, what does the
>group believe is fact in the Suetonius/Donatus lives - and I suppose
>Leofranc is the best
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, JAMES C Wiersum
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>Just a note to say how much I appreciated the comment on the "Silver
>Age." It was very insightful. How would Tennyson, who has been called
>"virgilian," fit in though? Or, is this why Tennyson has always been a
>bit suspec
Thank you, M. Taccheri and Ms.Conrad-O'Brian for the insightful
comments re: Virgil's view of the Underworld.
Yours etc.,
Scott F. Pierce
---Umberto Taccheri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> You can find a discussion about its debts to Orphism (and other
> related religions and philosophies) i
Dear Sir, thank you for the cogent, precise and succinct response to
my questions. I'm speechless to realize that your answer comes from
New Zealand! Although I've met students from your country, I've never
been farther from home except a trip to the Continent, where i studied
briefly in France d
You can find a discussion about its debts to Orphism (and other
related religions and philosophies) in Vittorio Macchioro. _From Orpheus to
Paul_ . New York: Holt, 1930. Old but informative.
best,
Umberto Taccheri
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> Date: Mon,
Cormier's the man, though there is a little in Baswell.
This recent piece I have not read, it sounds very un-Italian I'm afraid:
TI: Heinrich von Veldeke, 'Eneas'. A comparison with the 'Roman d'Eneas',
and a translation into English - Fisher,RW AU: Zellmann_U JN: ZEITSCHRIFT
FUR DEUTSCHE PHILOLO
>I was teaching the Aeneid in a summers session on classical literature in
>translation, and one of my students asked if Virgil originated his view of
>an Underworld that seems to contain a precursor of the Christian Hell, or
>if it already existed in Roman culture. Does anyone have an answer?
>
>
Has anything been written about the reception of the Roman d'Eneas? I'm
especially interested in trecento Italy. (Have posted a private query to
Raymond Cormier on this, but suspect he's out of email range for the
summer.)
---
Dav
Dear Simon and all,
I thought that was a good introduction to the problem - mind you
I'm an Anglo-Saxonist, not a Vergil scholar.
It doe bring up something that has been bothering me for the last
few months, having read Horsfall's hatchet job on the lives, what does the
group believ
Scott, you will doubtless receive more learned and thorough replies from
the professional classical scholars, but here are some short answers, which
I hope won't put you too far astray:
1. Does anyone know how incomplete the Epic poem is? What's unfinished
about it?
Not much. There are s
I realize that my previous post suggests that (for example) the Bough and
the Gate in Book Six offer merely "small problems" of interpretation. Well,
dare I say it? I have come to think they are indeed small but insoluble
textual problems, which make secure interpretation of the passages simply
una
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