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... establish a parallel between the Alexandrine poetry of the third century B.C. and that of the Augustan Age . Nor can it be denied that the relation of the Augustan poets to the Emperor was somewhat parallel to that of the scholars and ...
... establish a parallel between the Alexandrine poetry of the third century B.C. and that of the Augustan Age . Nor can it be denied that the relation of the Augustan poets to the Emperor was somewhat parallel to that of the scholars and ...
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... establish a parallel between the Alexandrine poetry of the third century B. C. and that of the Augustan Age . Nor can it be denied that the relation of the Augustan poets to the Emperor was somewhat parallel to that of the scholars and ...
... establish a parallel between the Alexandrine poetry of the third century B. C. and that of the Augustan Age . Nor can it be denied that the relation of the Augustan poets to the Emperor was somewhat parallel to that of the scholars and ...
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... establish the continuity of national existence . The Augustan Age impressed itself on the minds of those living under it as an era not of destruction but of restoration . Though in the early part of his career Augustus availed himself ...
... establish the continuity of national existence . The Augustan Age impressed itself on the minds of those living under it as an era not of destruction but of restoration . Though in the early part of his career Augustus availed himself ...
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... establish the ancient faith in the minds of the educated classes and to restore a primitive austerity of life , this revival affected the best 1 Cf. Ancyraean inscription : ' Templum Apollinis in Palatio cum porticibus , aedem Divi ...
... establish the ancient faith in the minds of the educated classes and to restore a primitive austerity of life , this revival affected the best 1 Cf. Ancyraean inscription : ' Templum Apollinis in Palatio cum porticibus , aedem Divi ...
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... established ' cultus , ' as the symbol and the instrument of Roman domination over foreign nations 4. The cities of Spain vie with the cities of the Asiatic Greeks in their desire to raise temples in honour of the living Emperor ...
... established ' cultus , ' as the symbol and the instrument of Roman domination over foreign nations 4. The cities of Spain vie with the cities of the Asiatic Greeks in their desire to raise temples in honour of the living Emperor ...
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