Patterns of Time in VergilThe theme, time in literature, fascinating and inexhaustible, invites study from various points of view. The subject has intrigued students of the novel, of course; it has also increasingly attracted those interested in earlier literatures. Vergil's poetry figures especially in two sorts of study: in works of a more or less anthropological nature devoted to exploring time and time-related ideas in various cultures or various authors, and in studies dealing with narrative technique, notably tense. -- Introduction. |
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Time and Timelessness in the Eclogues | 7 |
Time and Tense in the Aeneid | 33 |
Roman History in the Future Tense | 55 |
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