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Blogging the Aeneid: Book 1, lines 198-222

As always, cross-posted from http://apvergil.blogspot.com.

First of all, some interesting aspects of the language:

Aeneas' speech contains three different instances of anaphora (O...O, 198-9; vos...vos, 200-1; per...per, 204); clearly there is an effect that Vergil is looking to create through all of this repetition of key initial words - what might it be? Is Aeneas using these rhetorical devices to hammer his point home to his men -… Continue

Added by Preston Bannard on November 23, 2008 at 10:56pm — No Comments

Blogging the Aeneid: Book 1, lines 157-179

Once again, this is cross-posted from http://apvergil.blogspot.com. Comments in either place are always welcome and appreciated.

Before getting into a more general discussion of this passage, I just wanted to note a couple of interesting features of the language in this passage. First of all, line 164 has a particularly apt caesura, as it falls after silent - one can imagine someone reading it out loud to linger on that pause slightly longer… Continue

Added by Preston Bannard on November 11, 2008 at 8:00pm — No Comments

Blogging the Aeneid: Book 1, lines 124-156

Last spring I began to blog, intermittently at best, on some of the passages we were reading in my AP Vergil class; it was meant both as an outlet for my ideas and to spur my students to greater thought about the passages than we had time for in class. I have finally begun again this year, and to the extent that I am able to stick with it (I'd like to post two or three times a week), I will be cross-posting on eClassics. I would love to read any comments that people have, either here or on the… Continue

Added by Preston Bannard on November 10, 2008 at 9:40pm — No Comments