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... gods and heroes was still a thing which a poet could accept with ' natural piety ' . More exactly , the Homeric simplicity and objectivity — the straight- forward rapid narrative of action , the direct discourse of both gods and men ...
... gods and heroes was still a thing which a poet could accept with ' natural piety ' . More exactly , the Homeric simplicity and objectivity — the straight- forward rapid narrative of action , the direct discourse of both gods and men ...
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... gods in the Jovian Thunderbolt that had already shattered his vitality ( 648–9 ) . Nothing in short marked him out to be the survivor of his patria . Pietas , indeed , is the duty of sons to parents and parents to sons but , as Cicero ...
... gods in the Jovian Thunderbolt that had already shattered his vitality ( 648–9 ) . Nothing in short marked him out to be the survivor of his patria . Pietas , indeed , is the duty of sons to parents and parents to sons but , as Cicero ...
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Brooks Otis. aspect of the symbolism is of course the divine machinery - the gods . What differentiates Virgil's use of the gods from that of Homer or , indeed , all the later writers of Homeric epic , is , as we have already partially ...
Brooks Otis. aspect of the symbolism is of course the divine machinery - the gods . What differentiates Virgil's use of the gods from that of Homer or , indeed , all the later writers of Homeric epic , is , as we have already partially ...
Contents
The Mystery of the Aeneid I | 1 |
From Homer to Virgil The Obsolescence of Epic | 5 |
The Subjective Style | 41 |
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