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... Cumae . And somehow pulled by Daedalus , fanciful though that may sound , I arrived at a confrontation with him below the rock upon the isthmus between the sea and the pallid lake , confirmed as to his presence by the carved inscription ...
... Cumae . And somehow pulled by Daedalus , fanciful though that may sound , I arrived at a confrontation with him below the rock upon the isthmus between the sea and the pallid lake , confirmed as to his presence by the carved inscription ...
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... Cumae has not been preserved as a beauty spot but continues relentlessly inhabited by breeding , excreting , living and dying humanity contributes by contrast to its potency as a sacred place . The rock alone is protected as an ...
... Cumae has not been preserved as a beauty spot but continues relentlessly inhabited by breeding , excreting , living and dying humanity contributes by contrast to its potency as a sacred place . The rock alone is protected as an ...
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... Cumae , and all the reading of Greek and Latin literature in translation , of archaeology and anthropology and primitive technology , upon which I have spent some part of the subsequent decade , have contributed less to my realization ...
... Cumae , and all the reading of Greek and Latin literature in translation , of archaeology and anthropology and primitive technology , upon which I have spent some part of the subsequent decade , have contributed less to my realization ...
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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