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Page 15
... winds were treated metaphorically as steeds , the brood of the wooden horse draws to itself the image of winds . The first moment Aeneas realizes that ruin has come upon his city Virgil enlivens with a simile comparing this destruction ...
... winds were treated metaphorically as steeds , the brood of the wooden horse draws to itself the image of winds . The first moment Aeneas realizes that ruin has come upon his city Virgil enlivens with a simile comparing this destruction ...
Page 16
... winds or horse , but now the very god , who can impart de- structive power to each , is himself the destroyer . Both these realms of violence , of mountain and horse , winds and destructive Greeks , fit closely into a pattern of madness ...
... winds or horse , but now the very god , who can impart de- structive power to each , is himself the destroyer . Both these realms of violence , of mountain and horse , winds and destructive Greeks , fit closely into a pattern of madness ...
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... wind , a detail which is in part a further rationalization of the welter of mythological references pointing to the close connection be- tween horses and winds . On the religious association of horses with death , see L. Malten , " Das ...
... wind , a detail which is in part a further rationalization of the welter of mythological references pointing to the close connection be- tween horses and winds . On the religious association of horses with death , see L. Malten , " Das ...
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