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... ancient virtues , constantia , fides , humanitas , religio , pietas , the national scheme of ethics , a gift from the gods to Rome , and from Rome to all nations . Here was the imperial concept of the mother nation whose family was all ...
... ancient virtues , constantia , fides , humanitas , religio , pietas , the national scheme of ethics , a gift from the gods to Rome , and from Rome to all nations . Here was the imperial concept of the mother nation whose family was all ...
Page 159
... Ancient Book Illumination ( Martin Classical Lectures , XVI ) ( Cam- bridge , Mass . , 1959 ) . The miniatures tend to be pastiches , compilations of a selection of heterogeneous elements drawn from several sources , ancient sculpture ...
... Ancient Book Illumination ( Martin Classical Lectures , XVI ) ( Cam- bridge , Mass . , 1959 ) . The miniatures tend to be pastiches , compilations of a selection of heterogeneous elements drawn from several sources , ancient sculpture ...
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... ancient legend three - quarters of which did not exist before I wrote it down , painted it and cast it in bronze . I have found many people who honestly if thoughtlessly believed that it was Homer , or Virgil or Ovid or some other ancient ...
... ancient legend three - quarters of which did not exist before I wrote it down , painted it and cast it in bronze . I have found many people who honestly if thoughtlessly believed that it was Homer , or Virgil or Ovid or some other ancient ...
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The Originality of the Aeneid | 27 |
Virgil and the Flavian Epic | 67 |
Virgil into Dante | 94 |
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Aeneas Aeneid Alcinous Anchises ancient Apollo Apollonius Argonautica artist Ascanius Augustan Baiae Book bronze bull Campania cauldron century Cephalon Classical Claude Claude Lorrain Claude's context Cumae Cumaean Daedalus Dante Dante's Daphnis death Deiphobe Dido Dido's divine door Dryden earth Eclogues epic episode Flavian Gaia Gallus Georgics gods Golden Greek Hannibal hero heroic Homer Horace human Icarus idyllic Iliad inspiration Italy J. M. W. Turner Juno Jupiter labyrinth landscape Latin Latium legend literary lived London looked Maze Maker Minos Minotaur myth narrative nature nekuia Nicolas Poussin Odyssean Odysseus Ovid painting Pallas Pasiphaƫ passage pastoral perhaps pietas PLATE poem poet poetic poetry prophecy Punica rock Roman Rome scene sculpture sense setting Sibyl Silius Sixth Aeneid souls speak spirit Statius storm Thebaid theme Theocritus tradition tragic tripod Trojan Troy Turnus underworld Valerius Venus Virgil Virgilian vision W. F. Jackson Knight