Sine Fine: Vergil's Masterplot

‘Unbounded Views’: Incomplete Ekphrasis and the Visual Imagination in Virgil

“…), 126f., who rejects Augustine's judgment as 'crude and inadequate'. Mitchell-Boyask (1996), 305, adds 'Augustine might have avoided such claims had he been a better literary formalist '. 89.…”

“…31.So, too, the ending of the Aeneid , though in a very different way, as evinced by the various efforts to complete it with a ‘sequel’ detailing such events as Aeneas’ marriage and apotheosis. The ending of the epic is famously challenging; Hardie (1997), 143, writes: ‘the last scene both stresses its own finality and provocatively fails to meet expectations of a proper ending’; see also Mitchell-Boyask (1996). By contrast no critic (at least to my knowledge) finds Ecl.…”

Brill's Companion to Silius Italicus

“…He compares the current passage at n.19. 91 Narrative desire: Brooks (1984); in the Aeneid:Mitchell-Boyask (1996). Lucretius' depiction of Epicurus' mastery of knowledge as both a military and sexual conquest: 36-42; cf.…”