At 1:25 PM -0400 7/15/98, Philip Thibodeau wrote:
>There's certainly no question that Donatus and Servius saw one of the most
>important purposes of the Aeneid to be praise of Augustus, but I think it
>important to keep in mind that they are advancing interpretations from a
>grammarian's point of v
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Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 15:31:24 +0200
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>At 10:39 PM 7/14/98 +, Yvan Nadeau wrote:
>>The problem about email is that it induces action rather than
>>reflection. I think I shall give it up.
>
>I'm not sure it's any worse than conversation in that
In the Eudemian Ethics (1219b) Aristotle distinguishes between encomium,
praise and felicitation:
dio heteron eudaimonismos kai epainos kai enko:mion. to men gar
enko:mion logos tou kath' hekaston ergou, ho d' epainos toiouton einai
katholou, ho d' eudaimonismos telous.
All are logoi. Aristotle
There's certainly no question that Donatus and Servius saw one of the most
important purposes of the Aeneid to be praise of Augustus, but I think it
important to keep in mind that they are advancing interpretations from a
grammarian's point of view. And the grammarians tend to be very
sympathetic
I think it is worth noting that an Etruscan ancestry apparently had a
certain cachet - Maecenas, as I recall, was supposedly proud of it - I
think the quote is in Horace - and the Claudians were pointedly Sabine.
This is slightly off the topic, but I think we should note that find fairly
frequent r
