At 04:00 PM 12/9/99 -0500, matthewspencer wrote:
maybe i am just dumb. entirely conceivable, in fact i
am almost sure of it. i need to read the aeneid again. perhaps over
break. i am tired, bye.
Don't give up, Matthew! Regroup and reformulate!
I am doing a very short paper comparing Lucretius' De Rerum Natura with
another classical author's work. Do you have any suggestions as to
comparisons of the Aeneid and De Rerum Natura or sources of information?
Thank you very much
Dara
Vergil's description of Aeneas' shield in Book VIII recalls Homer, but
here as elsewhere Vergil exploits the parallel not to emphasize the
similarities between his vision and Homer's, but, rather, the differences.
If you examine the imagery and language of the two passages closely,
you'll notice
