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... concerned to show that the Aeneid is of itself a sufficient witness . Some think that Virgil in the proem of Georgics III ( written shortly before 30 B.C. in all probability ) was declaring his intention of writing a Bellum Actiacum ...
... concerned to show that the Aeneid is of itself a sufficient witness . Some think that Virgil in the proem of Georgics III ( written shortly before 30 B.C. in all probability ) was declaring his intention of writing a Bellum Actiacum ...
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... concerned since 1956 . I did not read the Aeneid until I was thirty - five and even now my Latin is so rudimentary that I cannot do so comfortably in the original . Furthermore , I must confess that I came to Virgil not through any ...
... concerned since 1956 . I did not read the Aeneid until I was thirty - five and even now my Latin is so rudimentary that I cannot do so comfortably in the original . Furthermore , I must confess that I came to Virgil not through any ...
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... concerned , not with narra- tive or subject matter but with the language - the syntax and vocabulary — of painting and sculpture itself . On the other hand , I am not simply an illustrator . Given a subject , I tend not only to pursue ...
... concerned , not with narra- tive or subject matter but with the language - the syntax and vocabulary — of painting and sculpture itself . On the other hand , I am not simply an illustrator . Given a subject , I tend not only to pursue ...
Contents
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 Pasiphaë 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