Hans Zimmermann brings up something that has often troubled me. Do the
Augustan poets imagine time as linear or cyclical?
I tell my students that time in the Aeneid is a spiral, in which
situations (a) repeat themselves (b) on a scale of increasing magnitude.
E.g., Hercules vs. Cacus -- Aeneas
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Wilson-Okamura
david@virgil.org writes
What is the purpose of these ruined cities (which are mentioned only
briefly)? Are they a prophecy of what Rome will come to in the end? In
which case there is not going to be much progress after all...
There was a
