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Last class on Virgil - his versions of Homer

Published: Oct. 27, 2010, 3:04 a.m.

b"Our last class on Virgil -- how he reimagines Homer.\\xa0 The wrath of Turnus compared to that of Achilles.\\xa0 Aeneas is as merciless as Achilles will become (though we didn't really discuss this).\\xa0 The tension between public and private virtue in Virgil, Dante, and Milton: no such tension in Homer (no difference between them, or almost none) and as for Ovid, the private is what matters.\\xa0 (Plato a harder case.)\\xa0 Love in VIrgil, and other Platonic subjects.\\xa0 Gates of ivory and horn: Penelope's dream and Aeneas's compared to Adam's and Milton's.\\xa0 Exposition of Milton's Sonnet 23. Dr. Johnson's strictures on Virgil's imitation of Homer in the Rambler, and his preference for Ajax's silence to Dido's."