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... sense in which Homer was necessary to Virgil . Homer has real heroes , a basic morality , at least an embryonic sense of divine plan . The suitors , Aegistheus and in a sense Ajax and Agamemnon get what they deserve : and so , in ...
... sense in which Homer was necessary to Virgil . Homer has real heroes , a basic morality , at least an embryonic sense of divine plan . The suitors , Aegistheus and in a sense Ajax and Agamemnon get what they deserve : and so , in ...
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... sense be set beside or added to Homer's epics . The possible thing - possible that is for post - Homeric and certainly for Hellenistic and Roman poets who also aspired to be original poets - was not to invent but to reproduce the ...
... sense be set beside or added to Homer's epics . The possible thing - possible that is for post - Homeric and certainly for Hellenistic and Roman poets who also aspired to be original poets - was not to invent but to reproduce the ...
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... sense admirable , its champions are heroes of a higher order . They and they alone can make war without being ... sense of its greatness , its noble intensity of spirit , which is also joined to a sense of the civilization with which ...
... sense admirable , its champions are heroes of a higher order . They and they alone can make war without being ... sense of its greatness , its noble intensity of spirit , which is also joined to a sense of the civilization with which ...
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