{"id":28,"date":"2007-07-03T09:17:05","date_gmt":"2007-07-03T15:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/islammedlit\/2007\/07\/03\/on-camilla\/"},"modified":"2007-07-03T09:17:05","modified_gmt":"2007-07-03T15:17:05","slug":"on-camilla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/islammedlit\/2007\/07\/03\/on-camilla\/","title":{"rendered":"On Camilla."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/scholar.lib.vt.edu\/ejournals\/ElAnt\/V4N1\/becker.html\">Camilla Essay<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t finished reading the\u00c2\u00a0essay yet, but I wanted to go ahead and post it before\u00c2\u00a0we run out of time.<\/p>\n<p>So far, so good. Becker proposes (so far) that Camilla takes\u00c2\u00a0a place of honor toward the end of the Aeneid, &#8220;undercutting&#8221; Turnus&#8217;s character. She commands the reader&#8217;s attention by commanding the attention of those surrounding her within the story. Sure.<\/p>\n<p>But then I get confused. The essay talks about Camilla as a character being the embodiment of the general confusion of the Aeneid. Granted, I read a chunk of the\u00c2\u00a0<em>Eneas<\/em> the other night like everyone else, but I can&#8217;t say I completely understand that theory&#8211; not yet anyway. I suppose I&#8217;d have to actually break down and do the reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Camilla Essay I haven&#8217;t finished reading the\u00c2\u00a0essay yet, but I wanted to go ahead and post it before\u00c2\u00a0we run out of time. So far, so good. Becker proposes (so far) that Camilla takes\u00c2\u00a0a place of honor toward the end of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/islammedlit\/2007\/07\/03\/on-camilla\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[254],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/islammedlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/islammedlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/islammedlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/islammedlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/islammedlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/islammedlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/islammedlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/islammedlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/islammedlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}