"instructing princes to know their true interest" (138) Machiavelli's The Prince??
"Alexander the Great" (145) not dead by poison??
"Hannibal" (145) something to do with vinegar?
"Caesar and Brutus" (145)
- "that his ancestor Junius, Socrates, Epaminondas, Cato the younger, Sir Thomas More, and himself were perpetually together" Brutus
"Homer and Aristotle" (146)
"Descartes and Gassendi" (146)
"Roman emperors" (146)
"Heliogabalus" (146)
"Polydore Virgil" (147) Virgil
Kinda cool seeing stuff from Euro in Swift's work.
(Easy allusions when the dead are summoned by a ?Necromancer?)
I find it a bit interesting how most of the resurrected souls are those of philosophers.
ReplyDeleteI also found a couple allusions:
ReplyDelete"In obedience, therefore, to his honour’s commands, I related to him the Revolution under the Prince of Orange; the long war with France, entered into by the said prince, and renewed by his successor..."
This is an allusion to the Glorious Revolution but also to the War of Spanish Succession (the long war with France)
"I saw Cæsar and Pompey at the head of their troops, just ready to engage."
This is an allusion to Pompey The Great
That is just 3 of the allusions that I found
I found a couple more allusions:
Delete" the comparison of Phaëton was so obvious, that he could not forbear applying it, although I did not much admire the conceit."
That is an allusion to to Phaeton, the God of the Sun.
"Wherein he agreed entirely with the sentiments of Socrates, as Plato delivers them; which I mention as the highest honour I can do that prince of philosophers."
Allusion to Socrates and Plato
"I spent five days in conversing with many others of the ancient learned. I saw most of the first Roman emperors. I prevailed on the governor to call up Heliogabalus’s cooks to dress us a dinner, but they could not show us much of their skill, for want of materials. A helot of Agesilaus made us a dish of Spartan broth, but I was not able to get down a second spoonful."
There are 3 allusions in this paragraph of the book. The Spartans, Heliogabalus, and Agesilaus are mentioned.
Those are some others that I found
Nader, ohh my goodness, this adds so much to the overall theme of Gulliver's Reflections on society. The philosophical inputs make sooooo much sense!
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