The Art of Vergil: Image and Symbol in the AeneidIn a discussion in which a comparison of Vergil and Homer becomes the pivot of criticism, the author analyzes basic themes, outlines the Vergilian structure, and indicates the way in which the characters and the events concerning them are related to the whole poem. The author shows how Vergil enlarged upon Homeric similes until they became transparent signs for inner events. He also examines the architecturally structured sequence of mood and argues that, since Vergil, mood has become to poetry what light is to painting. |
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... says : " Every genuine work of art is a mysterious sym- bol with many meanings , to a certain degree incomprehen- sible . " Juno , then , is first the mythical personification of the historical power of Carthage , and in this role she ...
... says : " Every genuine work of art is a mysterious sym- bol with many meanings , to a certain degree incomprehen- sible . " Juno , then , is first the mythical personification of the historical power of Carthage , and in this role she ...
Page 62
... says Gellius ( N.A. 9.9.12 ) , " that he used to say how Vergil had nowhere been more infelicitous than when he transferred the charming verses written about Nausicaa by Homer . In the first place , Homer had fittingly and properly ...
... says Gellius ( N.A. 9.9.12 ) , " that he used to say how Vergil had nowhere been more infelicitous than when he transferred the charming verses written about Nausicaa by Homer . In the first place , Homer had fittingly and properly ...
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... says that there was such a representation of Furor Bound in the forum of Augustus . 9. I.126 : graviter commotus et ... say that Aeneas , Neptune , and Jupiter all represent the tam- ing of passion . Man does this with much pain , God ...
... says that there was such a representation of Furor Bound in the forum of Augustus . 9. I.126 : graviter commotus et ... say that Aeneas , Neptune , and Jupiter all represent the tam- ing of passion . Man does this with much pain , God ...
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