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Virgil and Marcellus' Education

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Nicholas Horsfall
Nicholas Horsfall
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On Virgil's lines excudent alii…(Aen. 6.847–53) there have been two recent studies, 1 and further items of bibliography from the last five years or so may be added. Nevertheless, there remains a good deal of uncertainty, even controversy, over Virgil's choice of Greek and Roman cultural achievements and over the literary antecedents of that choice.

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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 39 , Issue 1 , May 1989 , pp. 266 - 267
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1989

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References

1 Hine, H. in Homo Viator… ed. Whitby, M., etc. (Bristol, 1987), 173ff.Google Scholar, noticed in CR 39 (1989), 184Google Scholar, and Stok, F., Percorsi dell' Esegesi virgiliana (Pisa, 1988), 7ffGoogle Scholar., noticed in some detail in Riv. Fit. 116.4 (1988).

2 Griffin, J., Latin Poets and Roman Life (London, 1985), pp. 169fGoogle Scholar.; Feeney, D., PCPhS 32 (1986), 14fGoogle Scholar.; Horsfall, , Anc. Soc. (Macquarie) 12 (1982), 15Google Scholar; cf. also G. Brugnoli, Enc. Virg. s.v. Marcello.

3 Serv. Dan. ad Aen. 1.712, Aen. 6 ed. E. Norden4 341f, Horsfall, , CR 32 (1982), 37Google Scholar. The objections advanced by Highet, G., The Speeches in Vergil's Aeneid (Princeton, 1972), pp. 94fGoogle Scholar. are captious and unhelpful; of course Virgil was properly acquainted with the main heads of an epicedion; of course 6.875–7 does not represent Augustus' own view of the succession; Norden never claimed this; no more do I!

4 Fr. xiv Malcovati = Plut. Comp. Pelop. cum Marc. 1.7.

5 Cf. Kierdorf, W., Laudatio funebris (Meisenheim, 1980), pp. 54ffGoogle Scholar.

6 The problem of how to educate the future Edward VII furnished an interesting comparison; cf. C. Woodham-Smith, Queen Victoria (paperback repr., London, 1975), pp. 340ff.

7 (Lucian) Macrob., 21; Bowersock, G. W, Augustus and the Greek World (Oxford, 1965), pp. 34fGoogle Scholar., Susemihl, , Gesch. gr. Lit. in der Alexandrinerzeit ii (Leipzig, 1892), p. 243Google Scholar.

8 Bowersock, 34f, after Cichorius, C., Röm. Studien (Leipzig, 1922), pp. 271ffCrossRefGoogle Scholar.

9 Suet. Tib. 8, Levick, B., Tiberius the Politician (London, 1976), p. 230 n. 30CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

10 Levick, p. 16.

11 Levick, p. 17; Bowersock, p. 35, etc.

12 ZPE 5 (1970), 217–83; cf. Kierdorf, 71f., Horsfall, BICS 30 (1983), 89Google Scholar.

13 Anc. Soc. (Macquarie) 17 (1987), 16–18; Ptol. Chennus ap. Phot. Bibl. p. 151a27.