A

Actium, 3

Aeneas, 4 , 50

Aeneid, 1

ambiguity in, 4 -5

optimism in, 3

pity in, 49 -51

reception of, 4 -5

suspension in, 6 -7, 87 , 129

Aetna, Mt., 160

Alexandrian esthetics, 11 , 16

Alpers, P., 22 , 23 -24

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

Anchises, 43 , 106

Antony, 3

Aratus, 8 , 156

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 pity, 20 , 56

on primary opposites, 173

ars,139 , 140

Ascraean song, 52

Asmis, E., 169 , 171

Augustine, Saint, 55 -56