ENGL 347 Lecture 11: Lecture 11
2 Apr 2018
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Virgil is offering us one version of seeing war. Acadian battle = a battle between evil and good. Ekphrasis: the war image is frozen as an icon on shield, which protects soldiers in battles. You have to see war in order to wage it. The static representation / description is contrasted to a narrative. The likeness of the two sides of the war. The horror of war: it is not moral at all. What looks like a cosmic war is actually the civil war. The beginning of the epic: book 2 aeneas = a great warrior. When he gets to italy he is like a soldier. But the death of pallas made him much more like achilles. He is more like a homeric hero rather than a roman hero. The war is fighting over a woman: lavinia (p348). Seen from the outside, nothing about her perceptions about the war. She is weeping (p369): distressed that she causes the war.
