Would you agree that the seeming contradiction of the golden bough expresses Virgel's hesitation between the peace of an older, pure world and one that was to be driven forward on the stage of history? Again, love your videos.
Aeneas tears down the golden bough, perhaps suggesting this very ambiguity you cite. I don't think that Virgil believed in the pax Romana, a peace wrought by a people led by Venus.
Would you agree that the seeming contradiction of the golden bough expresses Virgel's hesitation between the peace of an older, pure world and one that was to be driven forward on the stage of history? Again, love your videos.
Aeneas tears down the golden bough, perhaps suggesting this very ambiguity you cite. I don't think that Virgil believed in the pax Romana, a peace wrought by a people led by Venus.