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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 5045073, member: 110350&quot;]I read it too and found it quite interesting, although I skimmed a lot of the more dense passages and footnotes! Yours is a good summary. I thought the early parallels to the Ulysses/Argo iconography in gems and seals were fascinating. I had no idea that in some myths Ulysses was considered an ancestor of the founders of Rome itself, rather than merely the father of the mythical founder of Tusculum in Latium. I wonder why Virgil decided to portray him negatively in the <i>Aeneid,</i> especially as compared to Aeneas. I&#039;m sure that has something to do with the apparently complete absence of such iconography in Imperial times (at least on coins), although I know that educated people did continue to study Homer, including the <i>Odyssey</i>.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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