There is useful contribution to this question in Julia T. Dyson's 'King of
the Wood' (Oklahoma 2001) - a big improvement (for my money) on Frazer's
original arguments.
Dyson argues among other things that V clearly leads us to think that
Aeneas will die amid water. She particularly emphasises
Yesterday I received the following message from Tom Bestul, my old
Anglo-Saxon teacher:
I am editing a commentary on Proverbs by Alexander Nequam (d. 1217), and
have encountered what seems to me a very curious statement about Aeneas,
namely that he drowned in the battle with Turnus, and this fact
Yesterday I received the following message from Tom Bestul, my old
Anglo-Saxon teacher:
I am editing a commentary on Proverbs by Alexander Nequam (d. 1217), and
have encountered what seems to me a very curious statement about Aeneas,
namely that he drowned in the battle with Turnus, and this fact
