Aeneas uses the deer hunt to steady his nerves and reassert some feeling of
being in control after the storm, which had brought him near death both from
the waves and from the depression or despair that is never too far from him.
Hunting is an expression, rather therapeutic in effect, of human
Does the iconography, developed for Christian readers, suggest that V was
regarded as Prophet of the Gentiles? - Martin Hughes
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I was struck by the role played by poetry - rather insistently minor poetry,
perhaps - in the official reaction to the 7/7 terrorist incident in London. In
one way, I thought that there was something rather nice about the implied
message to al Qaeda - 'you've got the bombs, we've got the poems'
I've just had a first look at Peter Heather's book on the fall of the Roman
Empire and read a few online reviews - one of those occasions where the
different reviewers might seem to have read different books. How we react to
the Great Fall in the light of our own political preoccupations! Some
I recalled another book 'The Vigour of Prophecy' by Elisabeth Henry. Looking
on the internet for that title, I found a useful review both of that and of the
J.O'Hara book just mentioned, by Joseph Farrell. - Martin Hughes
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I suppose that the key line is 314 - 'arma amens capio,nec sat rationis in
armis'. It's hard not to see this as V's basic judgement on the wars of his
own time, at least the civil wars, at least in most aspects. But many further
questions are raised. Can ratio in armis be restored by a suitab
