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... shows country - life at its most sympathetic in Idyll vii , where he is identified with Simichidas ) , continues in 9 , largely concerned as it is with Menal- cas ' poetry and experiences , though here the whole is tinged with Virgilian ...
... shows country - life at its most sympathetic in Idyll vii , where he is identified with Simichidas ) , continues in 9 , largely concerned as it is with Menal- cas ' poetry and experiences , though here the whole is tinged with Virgilian ...
Page 36
... shows him the gods destroying Troy - when he finally sees the absolute futility of his and all human effort — will he consent to return to and save his family . All this Virgil had to show . Without it the Aeneid simply could not stand ...
... shows him the gods destroying Troy - when he finally sees the absolute futility of his and all human effort — will he consent to return to and save his family . All this Virgil had to show . Without it the Aeneid simply could not stand ...
Page 62
... shows violentia and ' hybristic ' cruelty where Aeneas , when he can , shows humanitas . I think there is no doubt that this is what Virgil intended . The pietas that had been so carefully instilled in Aeneas ( in Books I - VI ) had to show ...
... shows violentia and ' hybristic ' cruelty where Aeneas , when he can , shows humanitas . I think there is no doubt that this is what Virgil intended . The pietas that had been so carefully instilled in Aeneas ( in Books I - VI ) had to show ...
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The Originality of the Aeneid | 27 |
Virgil and the Flavian Epic | 67 |
Virgil into Dante | 94 |
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