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Virgil The Art Of Imitating Ho
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“Oprah, Uma. Uma, Oprah.”1 “Homer, Virgil. Virgil, Homer.” The Aeneid, the greatest Latin
epic of the battles and wanderings of the Trojan hero, Aeneas, and his founding of the ruling line
for the Roman Empire was written by the great Latin poet Virgil. Or so it seems. ....
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.... or the Odyssean Aeneid. The first
parallel that presents itself is the immediate situation of Aeneas and his ships. Just as Odysseus
and his crew were lost after the end of the Trojan War, so too are Aeneas and his crew. Just like
Odysseus was battered by a storm and almost killed after leaving Calypso’s island5, so too are
Aeneas’ ships being battered by a storm set on by Juno. The general situation is the clear
parallel, however. Not only the storm, but the fact that Aen.... |
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