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... epic . But , whether deliberately or inadvertently , he simply did not fit her into his gallery of heroes or his generally epic milieu . This perhaps does not matter so much because the heroes themselves ( especially Jason ) are ...
... epic . But , whether deliberately or inadvertently , he simply did not fit her into his gallery of heroes or his generally epic milieu . This perhaps does not matter so much because the heroes themselves ( especially Jason ) are ...
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... epic and standardized for his successors many earlier Greek epic conventions . Although the poems of the Flavian epic writers are widely divergent in scope , outlook and subject - matter , each of them curiously reflects Virgil's ...
... epic and standardized for his successors many earlier Greek epic conventions . Although the poems of the Flavian epic writers are widely divergent in scope , outlook and subject - matter , each of them curiously reflects Virgil's ...
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... epic poets , Lucan , Valerius Flaccus , Statius , and Silius Italicus wrote poems based on the versification and techniques of the Aeneid . Statius ends his Thebaid by urging his poem not to challenge the Aeneid but to follow far behind ...
... epic poets , Lucan , Valerius Flaccus , Statius , and Silius Italicus wrote poems based on the versification and techniques of the Aeneid . Statius ends his Thebaid by urging his poem not to challenge the Aeneid but to follow far behind ...
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The Originality of the Aeneid | 27 |
Virgil and the Flavian Epic | 67 |
Virgil into Dante | 94 |
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