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... system which allows one human being to possess another as property , was accepted as a natural arrangement by the ancient world of Greece and Rome , which took comparatively little account of national life , and still less of Introductory.
... system which allows one human being to possess another as property , was accepted as a natural arrangement by the ancient world of Greece and Rome , which took comparatively little account of national life , and still less of Introductory.
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... Rome , and easily overwhelmed the too docile Italians , who had had no time to cultivate a learning of their own , with a deluge of second - hand and second - rate mythology . The last poem of im- portance composed in the national ...
... Rome , and easily overwhelmed the too docile Italians , who had had no time to cultivate a learning of their own , with a deluge of second - hand and second - rate mythology . The last poem of im- portance composed in the national ...
Page 13
... Rome and Italy : men whose families , though wealthy enough to maintain a respect- able position , were not ennobled by office or aristocratic descent . The names of Ennius , Lucilius , Catullus , Vergil , Horace , Tibullus , and ...
... Rome and Italy : men whose families , though wealthy enough to maintain a respect- able position , were not ennobled by office or aristocratic descent . The names of Ennius , Lucilius , Catullus , Vergil , Horace , Tibullus , and ...
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... Rome as seen through the halo of legend . Turning to Horace , we find that many of his Odes are an attempt to reproduce in a Roman form the great manner of Pindar , which enshrines in the celebra- tion of warlike or athletic ...
... Rome as seen through the halo of legend . Turning to Horace , we find that many of his Odes are an attempt to reproduce in a Roman form the great manner of Pindar , which enshrines in the celebra- tion of warlike or athletic ...
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... Rome as a subject for poetry . Since the time of Ennius the Roman poets , at least the most eminent of them , appear to have given up this theme ; but Vergil in his Aeneid , Propertius in many of his elegies , and Ovid in his Fasti ...
... Rome as a subject for poetry . Since the time of Ennius the Roman poets , at least the most eminent of them , appear to have given up this theme ; but Vergil in his Aeneid , Propertius in many of his elegies , and Ovid in his Fasti ...
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