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Andrew McClellan (Davidson College)<\/strong>
\nThis paper explores the metapoetic potential of Troilus’ death depicted on Dido\u2019s temple at\u00a0Aeneid<\/em>\u00a01.474-8. The passage contains a nod to the act of writing in Troilus’ ‘scribbling’ in the dust with his spearpoint-turned-stylus. The scene ‘militarizes’ Virgil’s description in\u00a0Georgics<\/em> 3\u00a0of breaking bullocks for the plow; they ‘sign’ their hoofprints on the dust’s surface. The Troilus scene is invested with ‘georgic’ plowing imagery, itself a metaphor for literary composition (writing and plowing are linked in Latin poetics). The horror lies in Virgil’s transformation of a farmer training bullocks to drag the plow into the youthful Troilus who loses control,\u00a0becoming<\/em>\u00a0a plow cutting agrarian furrows. The metaphorical equivalency of writing and charioteering is also relevant: Troilus loses control of his chariot\u00a0and<\/em>\u00a0his literary composition. There’s authorial self-criticism in Virgil’s ‘restaging’ of georgic imagery: the\u00a0epic<\/em>\u00a0poet surpasses the Troilian ‘tyro’ drawing ephemeral lines in the dust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Andrew McClellan (Davidson College) This paper explores the metapoetic potential of Troilus’ death depicted on Dido\u2019s temple at\u00a0Aeneid\u00a01.474-8. The passage contains a nod to the act of writing in Troilus’ ‘scribbling’ in the dust with his spearpoint-turned-stylus. The scene ‘militarizes’ Virgil’s description in\u00a0Georgics 3\u00a0of breaking bullocks for the plow; they ‘sign’ their hoofprints on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23724,"featured_media":0,"parent":103,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/no-sidebars.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/overlooked-network\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/119"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/overlooked-network\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/overlooked-network\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/overlooked-network\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23724"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/overlooked-network\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/overlooked-network\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":648,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/overlooked-network\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/119\/revisions\/648"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/overlooked-network\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/overlooked-network\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}