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2nd class on Virgil: his sublimity

Published: Oct. 24, 2010, 2:50 p.m.

b"More on\\xa0 Virgil's relation to Homer and the Aeneid as a response to Homer. Virgil's sublimity: sunt lachrymae rerum and facile descensus Averni. Descents into the underworld in Homer, Virgil, and Dante.\\xa0 The treacherous Sinon in Virgil and in the Inferno.\\xa0 Self division ubiquitous and deep in Virgil, whereas only found in this mode in Achilles in Homer.\\xa0 Three scenes of supplication from Aeneas's point of view as the one supplicated."