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New for 2023: Victorian Poetry Scroll back for previous courses on Shakespeare, Eighteenth Century Poetry, Close Reading, Various film genres, Film and Philosophy, the Western Canon, Early Romantics, 17th Century Poetry, etc.
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Sunday Oct 24, 2010
Sunday Oct 24, 2010
More on 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. The treacherous Sinon in Virgil and in the Inferno. Self division ubiquitous and deep in Virgil, whereas only found in this mode in Achilles in Homer. Three scenes of supplication from Aeneas's point of view as the one supplicated.
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