The Art of Vergil: Image and Symbol in the AeneidIn a discussion in which a comparison of Vergil and Homer becomes the pivot of criticism, the author analyzes basic themes, outlines the Vergilian structure, and indicates the way in which the characters and the events concerning them are related to the whole poem. The author shows how Vergil enlarged upon Homeric similes until they became transparent signs for inner events. He also examines the architecturally structured sequence of mood and argues that, since Vergil, mood has become to poetry what light is to painting. |
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The conviction that Roman order is founded in the same divine whole from which it derives its grandeur 15 is important to the Augustan view of the world . It is also basic to the interpretation of the Roman res publica in Cicero's de ...
The conviction that Roman order is founded in the same divine whole from which it derives its grandeur 15 is important to the Augustan view of the world . It is also basic to the interpretation of the Roman res publica in Cicero's de ...
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The innate grandeur of her royal soul — and , as a consequence , the depth of her fall - distinguish her from the Greek models to whom she is compared . She is not an intemperate barbarian , a bloodthirsty " lioness " like Euripides ...
The innate grandeur of her royal soul — and , as a consequence , the depth of her fall - distinguish her from the Greek models to whom she is compared . She is not an intemperate barbarian , a bloodthirsty " lioness " like Euripides ...
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Her vacillation between love and hate was apparently also a vacillation between humiliation and grandeur , with grandeur evident even in humiliation . Even though the queen's passion appears to be delusion and ignominy from the point of ...
Her vacillation between love and hate was apparently also a vacillation between humiliation and grandeur , with grandeur evident even in humiliation . Even though the queen's passion appears to be delusion and ignominy from the point of ...
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| Title | The Art of Vergil: Image and Symbol in the Aeneid Volume 117 of Ann Arbor paperbacks University of Michigan classics |
| Author | Viktor Pöschl |
| Translated by | Gerda M. Seligson |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | University of Michigan Press, 1962 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 27 Feb 2008 |
| ISBN | 0472061704, 9780472061709 |
| Length | 216 pages |
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