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... heroic , Homeric level . He is another Teucer . 5. Yet the ' heroic moment ' of Aeneas ' speech to his men is an infinitely amplified version of Homer . The heroic changes its character . First of all , the inherent egoism of Odysseus ...
... heroic , Homeric level . He is another Teucer . 5. Yet the ' heroic moment ' of Aeneas ' speech to his men is an infinitely amplified version of Homer . The heroic changes its character . First of all , the inherent egoism of Odysseus ...
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... heroic age ' that was at all usable . There were no gods and heroes but Homer's gods and heroes . Neither Roman history - even in its ' Augustanized ' Livian form - nor hellenistic philosophy ( such as , e.g. , the Stoic eiμapuév or ...
... heroic age ' that was at all usable . There were no gods and heroes but Homer's gods and heroes . Neither Roman history - even in its ' Augustanized ' Livian form - nor hellenistic philosophy ( such as , e.g. , the Stoic eiμapuév or ...
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... heroic life that could in some sense be set beside or added to Homer's epics . The possible thing - possible that is for post - Homeric and certainly for Hellenistic and Roman poets who also aspired to be original poets - was not to ...
... heroic life that could in some sense be set beside or added to Homer's epics . The possible thing - possible that is for post - Homeric and certainly for Hellenistic and Roman poets who also aspired to be original poets - was not to ...
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The Originality of the Aeneid | 27 |
Virgil and the Flavian Epic | 67 |
Virgil into Dante | 94 |
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