Talk:I sing of Olaf

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An anonymous user posted this comment in the article text:

"I am curious what Achilles has to do with the opening of the Aeneid. True, the Aeneid opens with the verb "sing," but the reference is to "the man" who ws fleeing from Troy. Achilles figures prominently in the first lines of the Iliad, wherein the poet entreats the Goddess to sing about the wrath of Achilles. So, for "Virgil" and the "Aeneid" you should substitute "Homer" and "Achilles.""

Be that as it may, the Bloom-edited source specifically mentions Virgil and the Aeneid. The work by Gary Lane, I'm not sure is available online - I found it in a library which is closed due to the pandemic, but maybe archive.org has it. DS (talk) 13:54, 1 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I think the reference to Achilles is simply a mistake for Aeneas. The Aeneid begins "I sing of arms and the man [who founded Rome]" which refers to Trojan Aeneas, not the Greek Achilles. Any objections to my changing Achilles to Aeneas in the text? Edmund Blackadder (talk) 17:22, 14 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

That'd be original research. The source cited specifically says Achilles, not Aeneas. Can you point to a source that underlines the contrast between Olaf and Aeneas? DS (talk) 18:53, 14 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]