VirgilVirgil lived through the fall of the Roman Republic and the establishment of the Empire, and in his poems we see a series of attempts, increasingly ambitious in scale and conception, to combine technical brilliance with profound meditations on the nature of imperialism and the relation of the individual and the State. From short pastoral poems he progressed to the heroic myth of the founding of Rome, the Aeneid, recognized as the greatest masterpiece of Latin literature and an incalculable influence on Dante, Milton, Berlioz, Tennyson, and T.S. Eliot. In this concise introduction to the poetic achievement of Virgil, Griffin explores the thought of this great poet, placing him in his historical and literary context. |
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... Horace ; and we have less solid information about him than the considerable volume of ancient Lives would appear to suggest . He was born in a small town near Mantua : 15 October 70 BC is given as his birthday . His family appears to ...
... Horace ; and we have less solid information about him than the considerable volume of ancient Lives would appear to suggest . He was born in a small town near Mantua : 15 October 70 BC is given as his birthday . His family appears to ...
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... Horace , did not write autobiographical poems . But ancient scholars who had seen his will tell us that he left the very large sum of ten million sesterces , with substantial legacies to Maecenas and Augustus . No doubt this represented ...
... Horace , did not write autobiographical poems . But ancient scholars who had seen his will tell us that he left the very large sum of ten million sesterces , with substantial legacies to Maecenas and Augustus . No doubt this represented ...
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... Horace or Virgil . And he had many other things to do besides reading their productions . As Horace put it with an inimitable blend of flattery and irony , addressing Augustus , ' When you alone are shouldering such a weight of affairs ...
... Horace or Virgil . And he had many other things to do besides reading their productions . As Horace put it with an inimitable blend of flattery and irony , addressing Augustus , ' When you alone are shouldering such a weight of affairs ...
Contents
Rome and Arcadia | 20 |
the Muse in hobnails | 36 |
The Aeneid and the myth of Rome | 58 |
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