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To: nihil who wrote (56434)9/29/1999 5:04:00 PM
From: Neocon  Respond to of 108807
 
I quoted the beginning of the Iliad in English...



To: nihil who wrote (56434)9/29/1999 6:14:00 PM
From: Edwarda  Respond to of 108807
 
Obviously, Neocon was not suggesting that Vergil wrote in Greek! His posting properly noted that the Aeneid finds its origins in Greek mythology. Vergil's epic, in Latin, of course, uses the myth to glorify the Trojan origin of the Roman civilization.

What could one expect? It was commissioned by Octavian, later Augustus.

BTW, another and, IMO, better translation, is "I sing of arms and a man"!


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