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... Aeneas at all ) 3 obtained exactly the situation he wanted : a fusion of the hospitality ( Al- cinous ) and amatory ( Medea ) motifs and at the same time a remarkable parallelism of Dido with Aeneas - so that his ' Medea ' became also ...
... Aeneas at all ) 3 obtained exactly the situation he wanted : a fusion of the hospitality ( Al- cinous ) and amatory ( Medea ) motifs and at the same time a remarkable parallelism of Dido with Aeneas - so that his ' Medea ' became also ...
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... Aeneas ' new destiny or , more exactly , why he should have been converted to it so much more readily and profoundly than Aeneas himself . He had a special relation to the gods ( both Jupiter and Venus ) and was obviously much more ...
... Aeneas ' new destiny or , more exactly , why he should have been converted to it so much more readily and profoundly than Aeneas himself . He had a special relation to the gods ( both Jupiter and Venus ) and was obviously much more ...
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... Aeneas ' devotion to him does not quite excuse his killing of Turnus . Virgil at this point is at once too like and too unlike Homer : Aeneas ' motive in the final Turnus scene is diluted , too Homeric to fit the ' Augustan ' hero he is ...
... Aeneas ' devotion to him does not quite excuse his killing of Turnus . Virgil at this point is at once too like and too unlike Homer : Aeneas ' motive in the final Turnus scene is diluted , too Homeric to fit the ' Augustan ' hero he is ...
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The Originality of the Aeneid | 27 |
Virgil and the Flavian Epic | 67 |
Virgil into Dante | 94 |
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