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Page 38
... book ( the games and ship- burning ) amply confirms . It is , at first sight , doubly curious . It consists in large part of funeral games for the dead Anchises and we naturally wonder why they should have been so long deferred . Virgil ...
... book ( the games and ship- burning ) amply confirms . It is , at first sight , doubly curious . It consists in large part of funeral games for the dead Anchises and we naturally wonder why they should have been so long deferred . Virgil ...
Page 83
... Book I of the Argonautica and again in Book I of the Thebaid . There is another in the last book of the Punica.59 Valerius and Silius have their storms at sea , but Statius , whose poem has nothing to do with the sea , sets his in the ...
... Book I of the Argonautica and again in Book I of the Thebaid . There is another in the last book of the Punica.59 Valerius and Silius have their storms at sea , but Statius , whose poem has nothing to do with the sea , sets his in the ...
Page 135
... books . Consider the strong vigour of Jupiter's speech in Book I , poetry of proud and imperial statement ; consider the martial swing of Roman history in the pageant of heroes in Book VI or the description of Aeneas ' shield in Book ...
... books . Consider the strong vigour of Jupiter's speech in Book I , poetry of proud and imperial statement ; consider the martial swing of Roman history in the pageant of heroes in Book VI or the description of Aeneas ' shield in Book ...
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The Originality of the Aeneid | 27 |
Virgil and the Flavian Epic | 67 |
Virgil into Dante | 94 |
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Aeneas Aeneid Alcinous Anchises ancient Apollo Apollonius Argonautica artist Ascanius Augustan Baiae Book bronze bull Campania cauldron century Cephalon Classical Claude Claude Lorrain Claude's context Cumae Cumaean Daedalus Dante Dante's Daphnis death Deiphobe Dido Dido's divine door Dryden earth Eclogues epic episode Flavian Gaia Gallus Georgics gods Golden Greek Hannibal hero heroic Homer Horace human Icarus idyllic Iliad inspiration Italy J. M. W. Turner Juno Jupiter labyrinth landscape Latin Latium legend literary lived London looked Maze Maker Minos Minotaur myth narrative nature nekuia Nicolas Poussin Odyssean Odysseus Ovid painting Pallas Pasiphaƫ passage pastoral perhaps pietas PLATE poem poet poetic poetry prophecy Punica rock Roman Rome scene sculpture sense setting Sibyl Silius Sixth Aeneid souls speak spirit Statius storm Thebaid theme Theocritus tradition tragic tripod Trojan Troy Turnus underworld Valerius Venus Virgil Virgilian vision W. F. Jackson Knight