The Burial-places of Memory: Epic Underworlds in Vergil, Dante, and Milton |
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... figure , there is a shabby , thread- bare quality about him that suggests the impotence of his au- thority side by side with the indications of his power : turbidus hic caeno vastaque voragine gurges aestuat atque omnem Cocyto eructat ...
... figure , there is a shabby , thread- bare quality about him that suggests the impotence of his au- thority side by side with the indications of his power : turbidus hic caeno vastaque voragine gurges aestuat atque omnem Cocyto eructat ...
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... figure of Charon as a kind of metonymy for what is from the point of view of the new - style heroism an entire ... figures will continue forever their repetitive rep- ertoire . " The Sybil suggests that whatever they do will not be of ...
... figure of Charon as a kind of metonymy for what is from the point of view of the new - style heroism an entire ... figures will continue forever their repetitive rep- ertoire . " The Sybil suggests that whatever they do will not be of ...
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... figure of Vergil nor the text of the Aeneid escapes the consequences of Dante's refusal to accord mere tem- poral priority the privilege of unquestioned authority , and why Vergil himself is curiously drawn into the process of ...
... figure of Vergil nor the text of the Aeneid escapes the consequences of Dante's refusal to accord mere tem- poral priority the privilege of unquestioned authority , and why Vergil himself is curiously drawn into the process of ...
Contents
The Easy Descent from Avernus | 17 |
Language and History | 57 |
Traditions and the Individual Talent | 118 |
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