Arma Virumque -The Girl With the Tyrian Eyes

Genre/Style: Folk, Simon & Garfunkel

Touchstones: Simon & Garfunkel, “El Condor Pasa (If I Could),” “Scarborough Fair/Canticle”

Themes: Oral tradition, cultural exchange/contaminatio, foreignness, point of view, female power, rationalization, nationalism

Work: Vergil’s (Publius Vergilius Maro) Aeneid Books 1 and 4