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> It doe bring up something that has been bothering me for the last
>few months, having read Horsfall's hatchet job on the lives, what does the
>group believe is fact in the Suetonius/Donatus lives - and I suppose
>Leofranc is the best
Dear Sir, thank you for the cogent, precise and succinct response to
my questions. I'm speechless to realize that your answer comes from
New Zealand! Although I've met students from your country, I've never
been farther from home except a trip to the Continent, where i studied
briefly in France d
Dear Simon and all,
I thought that was a good introduction to the problem - mind you
I'm an Anglo-Saxonist, not a Vergil scholar.
It doe bring up something that has been bothering me for the last
few months, having read Horsfall's hatchet job on the lives, what does the
group believ
Scott, you will doubtless receive more learned and thorough replies from
the professional classical scholars, but here are some short answers, which
I hope won't put you too far astray:
1. Does anyone know how incomplete the Epic poem is? What's unfinished
about it?
Not much. There are s
I realize that my previous post suggests that (for example) the Bough and
the Gate in Book Six offer merely "small problems" of interpretation. Well,
dare I say it? I have come to think they are indeed small but insoluble
textual problems, which make secure interpretation of the passages simply
una
