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... expressed with pro- found understanding , and in language ranging from compassion to majesty , so much that was essential in the thought and feeling of the Romans , that his works were studied closely and loved by later generations ...
... expressed with pro- found understanding , and in language ranging from compassion to majesty , so much that was essential in the thought and feeling of the Romans , that his works were studied closely and loved by later generations ...
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... expression.18 No one in the Flavian period could match the intensity of feeling and terseness of expression that characterize Seneca and Lucan , but the influence of these two writers was very strong . They had set new fashions in Roman ...
... expression.18 No one in the Flavian period could match the intensity of feeling and terseness of expression that characterize Seneca and Lucan , but the influence of these two writers was very strong . They had set new fashions in Roman ...
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... expressed in the architecture of the Flavian period ( cf. 20 , 7 and 22 , 3-4 ) . Poetry , no doubt , was expected to conform to similar ideals . 19 Quintilian , X , 1 , 129. Quintilian's aim ( ib . 125 ) is expressed in the words ' cor ...
... expressed in the architecture of the Flavian period ( cf. 20 , 7 and 22 , 3-4 ) . Poetry , no doubt , was expected to conform to similar ideals . 19 Quintilian , X , 1 , 129. Quintilian's aim ( ib . 125 ) is expressed in the words ' cor ...
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The Originality of the Aeneid | 27 |
Virgil and the Flavian Epic | 67 |
Virgil into Dante | 94 |
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