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... Platonic device . The content of the vision in the Aeneid is also to a large extent Platonic . So the golden bough , borne by Plato in Meleager's Garland , is , first , the mark of the Eleusinian initiate on his mystic journey to the ...
... Platonic device . The content of the vision in the Aeneid is also to a large extent Platonic . So the golden bough , borne by Plato in Meleager's Garland , is , first , the mark of the Eleusinian initiate on his mystic journey to the ...
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... Platonic myth , is to make Aeneas emerge from the gate of false dreams , thereby hinting in epic terms that the description he has given of the soul and its mansions is not exactly true . In Platonic terms it is a falsehood like the ...
... Platonic myth , is to make Aeneas emerge from the gate of false dreams , thereby hinting in epic terms that the description he has given of the soul and its mansions is not exactly true . In Platonic terms it is a falsehood like the ...
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A. K. Michels Aeneas emerge Aeneid Agnes Kirsopp Michels allusion Aricia Augustus aureus Balder beautiful Proserpina birdlime bough which Aeneas brattea uento breath of gold Caieta dark holm-oak dead death Discolor aura dream of Scipio Elysium erat essayed his perilous Exeter Studies EXETER UNIVERSITY falsa insomnia false dreams Frazer gate of false gate of horn gate of ivory gates of dreams Gates of Sleep geminae gold foliage golden bough golden branch haste or irreligion Hödur inde sumpsit colorem instituit ivory gate Jackson Knight Latin lecture Loki Meleager metal mistletoe mystic narrative Norden PCPS poet Poetically the sense Poetry priest problem Proserpina has ordained quae R. D. Williams ramo ramum ramus Roman Rome runaway scholars Sergeaunt service to expound Servius Sibyl simile sixth book Studies in History subtle Platonic symbol T. C. W. Stinton T. P. Wiseman tree true shades umbris Underworld before midnight University of Exeter uolens facilisque Virgil Virgilian vision