Aeneas is unheroic in the Homeric sense. If your definition of *hero*
is the same as Homer's, then there is nothing more to say. But if we
define it as humanity's ideal then what we have is an argument between
Homer and Vergil.
For Vergil, WAR IS BAD, but sadly a necessary utility of history
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Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 19:47:45 -0500
From: "Bruce R. Magee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Aeneas (& Virgil) probably weren't as stoic as some have though. The
expression of emotion (outside of stoicism) was not seen as a necessarily
bad thing. In the _Iliad_, Achille
In honor of the poet's birthday, and the third anniversary of this
discussion group, I submit the following account of Virgil's birth, from
the vita attributed to Aelius Donatus:
"Publius Vergilius Maro was a Mantuan of humble parents, especially with
regard to his father: some have report
