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... opening five lines . Corydon's lament leads directly into a new attempt to win Alexis , which is the core of the poem , and when he realizes that this is in vain he relapses again into lamentation . The two plaints ( 6-18 , 56-68 ) ...
... opening five lines . Corydon's lament leads directly into a new attempt to win Alexis , which is the core of the poem , and when he realizes that this is in vain he relapses again into lamentation . The two plaints ( 6-18 , 56-68 ) ...
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... opening of Ovid's Metamorphoses . How are we to explain the apparently arbitrary selection of subjects ? The theory that Virgil is here summarizing the contents of a series of epyllia by his friend Cornelius Gallus has been much ...
... opening of Ovid's Metamorphoses . How are we to explain the apparently arbitrary selection of subjects ? The theory that Virgil is here summarizing the contents of a series of epyllia by his friend Cornelius Gallus has been much ...
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... opening of Works and Days , cast in rhyme couplets , perhaps suggesting a magical incantation constraining the Muses to inspire the poet ) . It is interesting that two of the most pastoral passages in early Greek poetry contain ...
... opening of Works and Days , cast in rhyme couplets , perhaps suggesting a magical incantation constraining the Muses to inspire the poet ) . It is interesting that two of the most pastoral passages in early Greek poetry contain ...
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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