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Page xi
... Rome in the Augustan Age Liberality of Augustus and Maecenas to Virgil and Horace Effects of this on the art of these poets Reaction from the luxury of the Age apparent in literature • PAGE 1-8 I 4 5 7 · 8-21 8 IO 13 14 15 • 19 20 21-31 ...
... Rome in the Augustan Age Liberality of Augustus and Maecenas to Virgil and Horace Effects of this on the art of these poets Reaction from the luxury of the Age apparent in literature • PAGE 1-8 I 4 5 7 · 8-21 8 IO 13 14 15 • 19 20 21-31 ...
Page xiii
... Rome . of the sentiment of Italy · of the political feeling of his age of its ethical and religious sensibility of Roman culture and learning . of Roman art and style The style of Virgil the maturity preceding decay . PAGE 78-87 78 79 ...
... Rome . of the sentiment of Italy · of the political feeling of his age of its ethical and religious sensibility of Roman culture and learning . of Roman art and style The style of Virgil the maturity preceding decay . PAGE 78-87 78 79 ...
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... Rome 222 Meaning of the Invocation of Caesar 224 Union of various modes of religious belief in the Invocation Proems to the other Books of the Georgics • 225 227 Religious conceptions embodied in Greek art IV . Comparison of Virgil with ...
... Rome 222 Meaning of the Invocation of Caesar 224 Union of various modes of religious belief in the Invocation Proems to the other Books of the Georgics • 225 227 Religious conceptions embodied in Greek art IV . Comparison of Virgil with ...
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... Rome in the Augustan Age 306 307 III . Composite character of the Aeneid illustrated by an examination of the Poem . Twofold purpose of Virgil in composing the Aeneid Native and Greek sources employed by him • Prominence given to his ...
... Rome in the Augustan Age 306 307 III . Composite character of the Aeneid illustrated by an examination of the Poem . Twofold purpose of Virgil in composing the Aeneid Native and Greek sources employed by him • Prominence given to his ...
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... Rome is ranked with the Age of Pericles at Athens , that of Lorenzo de Medici at Florence , and that of Louis XIV . in France , as one of four epochs in which arts and letters attained their highest perfection . The affinity between the ...
... Rome is ranked with the Age of Pericles at Athens , that of Lorenzo de Medici at Florence , and that of Louis XIV . in France , as one of four epochs in which arts and letters attained their highest perfection . The affinity between the ...
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Page 245 - Hanc olim veteres vitam coluere Sabini, hanc Remus et frater, sic fortis Etruria crevit scilicet et rerum facta est pulcherrima Roma, septemque una sibi muro circumdedit arces.
Page 159 - ... hinc tibi quae semper vicino ab limite saepes Hyblaeis apibus florem depasta salicti saepe levi somnum suadebit inire susurro hinc alta sub rupe canet frondator ad auras nee tamen interea raucae tua cura palumbes nee gemere aeria cessabit turtur ab ulmo.
Page 239 - Tam multae scelerum facies; non ullus aratro Dignus honos; squalent abductis arva colonis, Et curvae rigidum falces conflantur in ensem. Hinc movet Euphrates, illinc Germania bellum ; Vicinae ruptis inter se legibus urbes 510 Arma ferunt ; saevit toto Mars impius orbe : Ut cum carceribus sese effudere quadrigae, Addunt in spatia, et frustra retinacula tendens Fertur equis auriga, neque audit currus habenas.
Page 159 - PR o mihi tum longae maneat pars ultima vitae, spiritus et, quantum sat erit tua dicere facta : non me carminibus vincet nee Thracius Orpheus, 55 nee Linus, huic mater quamvis atque huic pater adsit, Orphei Calliopea, Lino formosus Apollo.