I think from memory that Jackson Knight found at this seance that Virgil
could no longer speak Latin in the afterlife and had to converse in
English. Although poor old Jackson Knight was probably deceived by the
medium, he was not the only Virgilian interested in these things:
F.W.H. Myers (1
Dear Andre'-Paul,
P.Virgilius Maro of Toulouse (fl.ca.A.D. 630) is mentioned a few times
in Helen Waddell's "The Wandering Scholars" (1936, 7th ed. rev.):
p.30 "It was a low tide [in Latin letters] on the Continent of Europe,
except for one deep pool at Toulouse where the grammari
>From "The Knight and the Friar"
Part The First
George Colman the Younger (17621836)
Pious Æneas, who in his narration
Of his own prowess felt so great a charm
(For though he feigned great grief in the re
I wonder if the Mantovani would care to consider whether a phenomenon
which one might call in Latin poetry actually exists or not.
In the line " Nocte volat caeli medio terraeque per umbram"(Æneid
iv.184) we have a description of Fama flying through the night, halfway
between heaven & earth. W
Tate wrote concerning "The Classics in a Nutshell: Vergil's Æneid
"Æneas,with his little boy etc":
> Cute and sorta humorous as long as one remembers "Ars gratia artis"
I'm not quite sure what you mean by "Ars gratia artis" here.Did you feel
that my posting was not relevant or "infra dignitat
Robert T. White wrote:
>
> The IMDB and a little leg work reveal "Aeneas" has been
> on screen 5 times
> 1927: The Private Life of Helen of Troy
> 1956: Helen of Troy
> 1961: The Trojan Horse
> 1962: The Avenger [sequel to The Trojan Horse]
> 1971: Trolius and Cressida
Thanks to Robert for his re
Here is a summary of the "Æneid", which the Mantovani may find amusing:
The Classics in a Nutshell: Vergil's Æneid
1 Æneas,with his little boy,
2 Slid down the fire escape from Troy.
3 His wife Creusa he forgot,
Robert T. White wrote:
> As far as cinema goes, I would love to know of any films based on the
> _Aeneid_...
To my knowledge the Æneid has never been filmed, but there was
an
Italian "bedsheet & sandal opus" called "The Trojan Horse" (Italian
title possibly "La Guerra di Troia
Dear Mantovani,
I am back online after four very frustrating
months.I
missed the Virgilian discussions more than I can say. To celebrate my
return from exile in the cultural wasteland
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I seem to recall reading a poem by Virgil when I was in high school, many,
> many years ago, in which he described the sack of Rome and likened the city
> to a widow weeping for her dead children. Am I confusing this with something
> else, or am I thinking of the descr
Scott Pierce wrote:
>I loved receiving Statius, in Latin no
> less! When I tried to special order the Thebaid from a bookstore a
> yr. or so ago, I got a "WHO?" And it's Statius, not STASHIUS.
Dear Scott,
I kno
Does anyone know the source for the following anecdote about Virgil?
It comes from an English translation of the "Pampædia" of J.A. Comenius
(1592-1670) [Dobbie,A.M.O.(tr.) "Comenius's Pampædia or Universal
Education"Dover(England):Buckland Hill Publications,p.73-74]
I am not sure that anyone has actually answered the original question
of the context of the Latin tag in Virgil's poem. To hope that the
following might be of use to the person who put the question to the
Mantovani.
1. THE ORIGINAL CONTEXT OF "LATET ANGUIS IN HERBA"(Eclogues III.93)
WRHare wrote:
>
> I wonder . . .wasn't there a religion in the ancient world that worshipped a
> snake as the symbol of the evil creator of the world? And isn't the egg
> symbolic of the soul? I realize this is fairly pop information, but I do
> wonder if it applies. I believe the snake worship
As an Easter greeting to the Mantovani, I present an extract from the
"Christiad" ("Virgilii evangelisantis Christiados libri XIII. In quibus
omnia quæ de Domino nostro Iesu Christo in Utroque Testamento, vel dicta
vel prædicta sunt, altisona Divina Maronis tuba suavissime
decantantur"London
PETRARCHAN REFERENCES
These come from the "Africa" of Francesco Petrarcha (1304-1374), an
unfinished epic concerning theSecond Punic War and Scipio. It is in
essence a "Scipiad".(The "Punica" of Silius Italicus was not discovered
in Petrarch's lifetime.) The text I have used was edited
Two more references:
-Ilias Latina.902-909
inde agit Æacides infesta cuspide Teucros
ingentemque modum prosternit cæde virorum,
sanguinis Hectorei sitiens; at Dardana pubes
confugit ad Xanthi rapidos perterrita fluctus
auxiliumque petit divini fluminis;ille [sc.Achilles]
instat et in mediis bell
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