Abstract
A warlike topic in acient epic : the battle from the city walls . An ancien epic, from Homer to the Latin Silver Age poets, always includes an episode of «teichomachia», or fighting from on top the city walls downwards. Yet this obligatory feature in the epic pattern is foreign to this heroic ideal, for which the only genuine protection of a city rests in the valour of its warriors, which valour can only reveal itself in level-ground fighting. Hence the counterbalancing of any episode of teichomachia by one of «horizontal» fighting, even against historical evidence.
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