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... revealed in the Aeneid as a whole , in its essential architecture and plan . Essentially the real ' plot ' of the Aeneid is that of the formation and victory of the Augustan hero . Virgil selected Aeneas as his hero because he happened ...
... revealed in the Aeneid as a whole , in its essential architecture and plan . Essentially the real ' plot ' of the Aeneid is that of the formation and victory of the Augustan hero . Virgil selected Aeneas as his hero because he happened ...
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... revealed . Dido's past , in a sense , we know ( Venus has revealed it ) ; Aeneas ' is still most obscure . But Virgil's purpose ( in choosing the context for Aeneas ' narrative ) went much further than this . The contrast of past and ...
... revealed . Dido's past , in a sense , we know ( Venus has revealed it ) ; Aeneas ' is still most obscure . But Virgil's purpose ( in choosing the context for Aeneas ' narrative ) went much further than this . The contrast of past and ...
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... revealed the nature of the man who was exposed to the passion of Dido and of his own heart . Book 4 takes up the action where it was left at the close of Book I but the hero's past revealed in Books 2 and 3 is an indispensable clue to ...
... revealed the nature of the man who was exposed to the passion of Dido and of his own heart . Book 4 takes up the action where it was left at the close of Book I but the hero's past revealed in Books 2 and 3 is an indispensable clue to ...
Contents
The Mystery of the Aeneid I | 1 |
From Homer to Virgil The Obsolescence of Epic | 5 |
The Subjective Style | 41 |
Copyright | |
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