Duncan F. Kennedy, in his essay, "Virgilian Epic"(10-28-12), argues that Virgil has made steady progression over the course of his poetic career, and that repetition plays a major role in interpreting his final work, the Aeneid. He looks at the Georgics, Eclogues, and Aeneid, Virgil's three major works, but most critically at the Aeneid. Kennedy talks about "telos" (slippage between 'end' as 'stopping point and as 'goal') and "epos" (connoting 'word' or 'utterance'), as well and their relevance to the epic. Kennedy mainly targets those who have read, or are interested in reading Virgil's poems, to relay to them his views on the structure of, specifically his epic.
This essay was fairly convincing, although I found the topic of choice to be a little dull and difficult to take sufficient interest in. Kennedy cited a lot of outside authors, including Philip Hardie, whom we have already read. He also talked a lot about the Iliad and the Odyssey to strengthen his arguments about repetition, comparing them often to the Aeneid. I did not particularly take interest in this essay; however, his idea of repetition was something to give good thought to.
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