By Niall Rudd
In those reviews of Latin poetry Niall Rudd demonstrates a number of severe tools and methods. He indicates the way it should be fruitful at assorted occasions to think about the old history of a poem, its language or constitution, its position in a literary culture, the position of severe paradigms, and so forth. but when no unmarried process has precise and invariable authority this doesn't mean serious anarchy. every one has its personal validity for various reasons, its personal strengths and boundaries. The reader needs to be flexible and delicate to a number of chances, yet now not doctrinaire.
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Later, after all her pleas have failed, we learn for the first time that Dido has kept in her palace a marble shrine in memory of Sychaeus (457-9). She is now so overwrought that at night-time she hears her dead husband's voice calling to her from the shrine; other sounds and visions also terrify her. She resolves to die and begins to make preparations. We then have a splendid soliloquy, ending with the lines: Non licuit thalami expertem sine crimine uitam degere more ferae, talis nee tangere curas; 14 The passages which establish this are conveniently listed by Gordon Williams in Tradition and Originality in Roman Poetry (Oxford 1968) 381.
Galinsky has argued in AJA 70 (1966) 2 2 3 ^ 3 that the figure is not Tellus but Venus, and S. Weinstock has maintained in JRS 50 (1960) 4 4 - 5 8 that the altar in question is not the Ara Pacis. J. M . C. Toynbee believes that it is the Ara Pacis but that the figure is that of Italia; her articles are in Proc. Brit. Acad. 1 am not qualified to take part in these controversies, and fortunately they do not affect the substance of my argument. 21 HISTORY aurea fruges Italiae pleno defudit Copia cornu.
Acad. 1 am not qualified to take part in these controversies, and fortunately they do not affect the substance of my argument. 21 HISTORY aurea fruges Italiae pleno defudit Copia cornu. Golden Plenty has poured forth her fruits upon Italy from a full horn. How is all this relevant to the Ars Amatoria ? Well, it can be shown, I think, that at several points Ovid exploits this edifying conception of agriculture in his own characteristic way. ). Love, then, like farming requires patience, care, and insight.