i have to write an essay about the aeneid for next week and i’m torn between 2 topics: a. images of fire in the night in scenes of destruction as allusions to the iliad and b. the coninuous return to troy, the reiterations of new troys related to the cyclic time of Virgil. my favorite is (a) but idk if it’ll be okay because it can derive in my essay being not only about the aeneid but the iliad as well and that’s... so not the point, the subject is latin literatura for god’s sake. but like, idk what else could i do with those fire-light-night images that i loved in the book. i also wanted them to work as some sort of locus amoenus in the sense of having the same function, delivering a specific scenery that somehow detonates the scene of destruction, if that makes sense¿
but like i have no bibliography for (a) and i have two possible books for (b) and like, that’d be easier, but i also know it’d actually be the easiest to do what appeals more to me and that’s (a) but like, i don’t want to get far from the assignment with the iliad stuff + idk where to look for somo virgilianist on the topic.
