Posted in the other on Jul 3rd, 2007
Camilla Essay
I haven’t finished reading the essay yet, but I wanted to go ahead and post it before we run out of time.
So far, so good. Becker proposes (so far) that Camilla takes a place of honor toward the end of the Aeneid, “undercutting” Turnus’s character. She commands the reader’s attention by commanding the attention of those surrounding [...]
the other- Menocal writes that the recent surge, over the past few centuries, in the development of Europe and the Americas, due to imperialist pursuits, has led them to classify themselves as a distinct entity from the Arab cultures that had helped lay the groundwork for the very same Renaissance that had given the western [...]
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