I think "Virgil's use as a schoolbook" is a valid phrase.
And I'm not just talking about GCSE or A level. The Aeneid was first used as an object of study a few years after his death, and has been used for study of Latin for hundreds of years. Because scholars focus on the "highlights" (the fall of Troy, Dido), this author thinks that we can't see the Aeneid as a whole.

Do you agree?
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Fri 14 Jan 2011, 14:43, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

The phrase confused me, as Virgil's a person, and therefore would be odd to use as a schoolbook.
But anyway, people focus on the good bits all the time, especially with something as lengthy as the Aeneid. Even The Bible isn't studied as a whole, due to all the bits that got edited over the centuries and compiled into the Apocrypha.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 14 Jan 2011, 14:47, Reply)

And of course it depends if you're Catholic or Protestant as to which Bible you have
and the Bible is a load of pamphlets held together with a lot of faith. It's impossible to take The Word of God as...the word of God, when it's been through about 4 languages and countless translators.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Fri 14 Jan 2011, 14:51, Reply)

Most QOTW answers more closely resemble the truth than the Bible

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 14 Jan 2011, 14:56, Reply)

I'm quoting the Bible in this essay.

( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Fri 14 Jan 2011, 15:04, Reply)