A
Actium, 3
Aeneid, 1
ambiguity in, 4 -5
optimism in, 3
pity in, 49 -51
reception of, 4 -5
Aetna, Mt., 160
Alexandrian esthetics, 11 , 16
Altevogt, H., 22
ambiguity:
in Aeneid, 4 -5
in Eclogues, 6 -7
in Georgics; 6 , 7 , 12 , 16 -22
incompatible with didactic, 17
See also suspension; unresolved tensions
Antony, 3
Aristaeus: in myth, 70
as paradigmatic farmer, Roman, Iron Age man, 71 -80
relation to Eurydice, 71
technology of, represented by bougonia,74 -80
Aristaeus and Orpheus, 13 , 18 , 21 , 25 -77, 48 , 67 -70, 186
as new myth, 181
Aristotle, 8
on bees, 124
on primary opposites, 173
Ascraean song, 52
Augustine, Saint, 55 -56