JOSEPH OF EXETER'S PAGAN GODS AGAIN.

From: Medium Aevum | Date: March 22, 2001| Author: RIGG, A. G. | Copyright information

Some years ago in this journal, Hugh C. Parker described how the pagan gods function in Joseph of Exeter's Ylias.(1) Thetis, when drowning Orontes (V. 167-70) or searching for Achilles (v.381-4), is simply the sea. Aurora, when mourning Memnon (VI.370-4), is the dawn, whose tears are the dew. When Minerva restrains Achilles (VI.364-9), she is metonymic for wisdom. I would not disagree with any of this, and so it came as a surprise to find that my own words were one of the points d'...

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