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Page vii
In writing the commentary to this book I have consulted many editions , both of the complete Aeneid , and of Book II : of the former the editions of Forbiger , Conington , Page , Sidgwick , and Mackail have been the most helpful ...
In writing the commentary to this book I have consulted many editions , both of the complete Aeneid , and of Book II : of the former the editions of Forbiger , Conington , Page , Sidgwick , and Mackail have been the most helpful ...
Page xi
From his youth Virgil , like Milton , had contemplated writing an epic : he now began to work on the Aeneid . The poem occupied him for the rest of his life and still wanted his final revision when he died at Brundisium , after a visit ...
From his youth Virgil , like Milton , had contemplated writing an epic : he now began to work on the Aeneid . The poem occupied him for the rest of his life and still wanted his final revision when he died at Brundisium , after a visit ...
Page xiii
Above all , the Aeneid was to be , and is , a religious poem , for Virgil was in full sympathy with Augustus ' desire to create a religious revival in Italy . Educated Romans may , indeed , have ceased to believe in the gods and ...
Above all , the Aeneid was to be , and is , a religious poem , for Virgil was in full sympathy with Augustus ' desire to create a religious revival in Italy . Educated Romans may , indeed , have ceased to believe in the gods and ...
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