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... given divine vigour by his mother's ambrosia ; in Homer Menelaus has three companions and the ambrosia is given them by Eidothea to conceal the smell of the seal hides . The business of the seals is played down in Virgil and the ...
... given divine vigour by his mother's ambrosia ; in Homer Menelaus has three companions and the ambrosia is given them by Eidothea to conceal the smell of the seal hides . The business of the seals is played down in Virgil and the ...
Page 383
... given up Homeric epic as a possible medium of effective poetry . There were in fact two readily available alternatives , each of which seemed equally forbidding . He could write another mythological epic out of the storehouse of ...
... given up Homeric epic as a possible medium of effective poetry . There were in fact two readily available alternatives , each of which seemed equally forbidding . He could write another mythological epic out of the storehouse of ...
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Brooks Otis. HISTORICAL EPIC The estimate of Historical Epic given in the text runs directly counter to that given by Konrat Ziegler in a short ( 55 pages ) but often cited monograph , Das Hellenistische Epos ( 1934 ) . This mono- graph ...
Brooks Otis. HISTORICAL EPIC The estimate of Historical Epic given in the text runs directly counter to that given by Konrat Ziegler in a short ( 55 pages ) but often cited monograph , Das Hellenistische Epos ( 1934 ) . This mono- graph ...
Contents
The Mystery of the Aeneid I | 1 |
The Subjective Style | 41 |
The Young Virgil | 98 |
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