SHIELD OF AENEAS

Shield Of Aeneas

Shield Of Aeneas

Philip Hardie contends that the protect of Aeneas in Virgil's Aeneid makes important use not only of the Homeric recount of the protect of Achilles but of very vintage allegorizations of Homer's description: "The centered characteristic of very vintage exegesis is its insistence that the large around of the Shield of Achilles, with its plenty of scenes, is an likeness of the entire cosmos, an allegory of the cosmos. The Shield of Aeneas is furthermore an likeness of the creation of a cosmos, but of a firmly Roman cosmos (though no one the less comprehensive ...