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... hero's nostos or voyage to his home overseas ; the divine machinery ( with opposing and helping gods under the general authority of Zeus - Jupiter ) ; the original ' deten- tion ' of the hero by a powerful female figure ; his release by ...
... hero's nostos or voyage to his home overseas ; the divine machinery ( with opposing and helping gods under the general authority of Zeus - Jupiter ) ; the original ' deten- tion ' of the hero by a powerful female figure ; his release by ...
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... hero who has not yet over- come the loss of his Trojan identity . It is Dido's respect for his Trojan heroism ( he ... hero's revelation of his heroism is of course the best of all courtships ( especially with a Dido ) but neither Aeneas ...
... hero who has not yet over- come the loss of his Trojan identity . It is Dido's respect for his Trojan heroism ( he ... hero's revelation of his heroism is of course the best of all courtships ( especially with a Dido ) but neither Aeneas ...
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... hero's own detaining passion ; the nekuia was shifted from a sort of extraneous finis to the hero's labours into an ' initiation ' for the hero's real and decisive labour to come . But all this was made possible by the ' innovation ' of ...
... hero's own detaining passion ; the nekuia was shifted from a sort of extraneous finis to the hero's labours into an ' initiation ' for the hero's real and decisive labour to come . But all this was made possible by the ' innovation ' of ...
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 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