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Page 152
... scene as it might have looked at the time . His approach is poetic , not historical ; his source is Virgil's text , not the discoveries of antiquarians or the writings of ancient ( or , for that matter , modern ) historians ' . Unlike ...
... scene as it might have looked at the time . His approach is poetic , not historical ; his source is Virgil's text , not the discoveries of antiquarians or the writings of ancient ( or , for that matter , modern ) historians ' . Unlike ...
Page 154
... scene and the earlier one on Libyan shores . But there is a world of difference between the verdant , idyllic setting in Latium and the portentous , almost inhospitable setting in Libya . The scene is evening . Ascanius has donned a ...
... scene and the earlier one on Libyan shores . But there is a world of difference between the verdant , idyllic setting in Latium and the portentous , almost inhospitable setting in Libya . The scene is evening . Ascanius has donned a ...
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... scene beside the Lake of Nemi , evoking the narrative of Aeneas ' quest and successful discovery of the talisman which served as his passport to Hades and to his ' rebirth ' . The scene is charged with something of the same potent light ...
... scene beside the Lake of Nemi , evoking the narrative of Aeneas ' quest and successful discovery of the talisman which served as his passport to Hades and to his ' rebirth ' . The scene is charged with something of the same potent light ...
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