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... less sharply than the human actors who occupy the foreground . It is precisely in this blend of dramatic and descriptive poetry that the secret of Theocritus ' art is to be found.5 Servius informs us that Virgil had before him a ...
... less sharply than the human actors who occupy the foreground . It is precisely in this blend of dramatic and descriptive poetry that the secret of Theocritus ' art is to be found.5 Servius informs us that Virgil had before him a ...
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... less ' . This has quite recently been pointed out by Professor Georg Knauer in his extremely interesting Die Aeneis und Homer . However one may disagree with him ( and I myself disagree with many of his points , especially with some of ...
... less ' . This has quite recently been pointed out by Professor Georg Knauer in his extremely interesting Die Aeneis und Homer . However one may disagree with him ( and I myself disagree with many of his points , especially with some of ...
Page 71
... less violent and less terse than either . Silius Italicus again resembles Lucan in the realism and exaggeration of some of his episodes and battle- scenes , and in the Stoic flavour of certain passages , and he makes much of ira and ...
... less violent and less terse than either . Silius Italicus again resembles Lucan in the realism and exaggeration of some of his episodes and battle- scenes , and in the Stoic flavour of certain passages , and he makes much of ira and ...
Contents
The Originality of the Aeneid | 27 |
Virgil and the Flavian Epic | 67 |
Virgil into Dante | 94 |
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