At 08:17 PM 4/27/02 +0100, Leofranc Holford-Strevens wrote:
(Suppose for instance that the wink theory could
somehow be made to stand up, why should Vergil wish to play that game?)
This is a fair question. There are, it seems to me, two reasons to argue
for the wink theory:
1.
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DIVnbsp;/DIVBRBRJames Butrica wrote:BRBRgt;BRgt; The other
gate is explicitly the exit for uerae umbrae: Aeneas is not aBRgt; uera
umbra or any kind
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], James Butrica
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By the way, in other traditions of catabasis, how do living mortals return
from the Underworld?
In the so-called Orphic Catabasis of P. Bon. 4, the last legible
letters, a few lines from the end of the poem, are sigma kappa
I'll have to think about these, but your timing couldn't be more perfect as we
race to the upper airs and through that proverbial ivory gate at the end
of L. VI and the school year. So, I have a piggy back question--The line-up
in the Underworld of souls to be recycled into great Romans seems
I'll have to think about these, but your timing couldn't be more perfect
as we race to the upper airs and through that proverbial ivory gate
at the end of L. VI and the school year. So, I have a piggy back
question--The line-up in the Underworld of souls to be recycled into
great Romans seems to
David's suggestion of a connection between the bad air of Albunea and that of
Lake Avernus is fascinating, and worth pursuing. But I hope I don't rouse
hippothanatophobia (fear of a man beating a dead horse--can someone make that
Greek more elegant?) by picking up on part of his introductory
Jane Ebersole wrote (in part) of Aeneid 6:
The line-up in the Underworld of souls to be recycled into great
Romans seems to smack of reincarnation. Does this appear in any
other Roman writings either literary or religious?
Ennius apparently claimed to have been, in previous lives, both the
James Butrica wrote:
The other gate is explicitly the exit for uerae umbrae: Aeneas is not a
uera umbra or any kind of umbra at all, and presumably therefore cannot
take this route and must therefore take the only alternative.
I've never understood this argument. What is it about the gate
James Butrica wrote:
The other gate is explicitly the exit for uerae umbrae: Aeneas is not a
uera umbra or any kind of umbra at all, and presumably therefore cannot
take this route and must therefore take the only alternative.
I've never understood this argument. What is it about the gate
Multas gratias! Vale ut valeas.
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