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... materials drawn from the huge patrimony of the classical lit- eratures . At the same time , the evocation of the past ... material on the Punica has been published . I am par- ticularly indebted to the work of German critics on the ...
... materials drawn from the huge patrimony of the classical lit- eratures . At the same time , the evocation of the past ... material on the Punica has been published . I am par- ticularly indebted to the work of German critics on the ...
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... material is drawn in part from Ovid ( Anna's story ) and in part from Virgil ( the death of Dido ) : the poet's impulse is Ovidian , as he sets to reworking and retractatio , retelling the story of the two sisters of Carthage . This ...
... material is drawn in part from Ovid ( Anna's story ) and in part from Virgil ( the death of Dido ) : the poet's impulse is Ovidian , as he sets to reworking and retractatio , retelling the story of the two sisters of Carthage . This ...
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... material of the Punica , second place to these " geographical and ethnological descriptions " . They offer both a breathing - space in the narrative and a means of giving new life and vigour to the eidos of epic , by injecting it with ...
... material of the Punica , second place to these " geographical and ethnological descriptions " . They offer both a breathing - space in the narrative and a means of giving new life and vigour to the eidos of epic , by injecting it with ...
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Aeneas Aeneid Alps amnem amnis Anna and Hannibal Anna Perenna Anna's antiquarian antithesis aquas archaeology army atque battle battle of Cannae Battus bellum Cannae Carthage Carthaginian causa cult cursu defeat dextra Dido Didone divinities elements Ennius ensem epic epigraph episode epos Eridanus fact Fasti Flavian poet germana goddess gurgite haec Hannibal Hannibal's hero Homeric hostility hydronym illa inter Iuno Juno Latin Latium Lavinium lines linked literary litora mache parapotamios magna mihi motif multa myth narrative nature Nevius Numicius numina nunc nymph Ofanto Ovid Ovid's poem Punica quae quam quid reader regarding rerum ripas river Roma Roman Rome and Carthage sanguine scene Scipio Second Punic Second Punic War Seneca's Silio Silius Italicus sister sororis stagna story styleme takes tellus terque terra theme tibi tradition Trebia Trojan unda undis Virgil virum visa waters writer καὶ
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Classical Constructions: Papers in Memory of Don Fowler, Classicist and ... S. J. Heyworth No preview available - 2007 |
Flavian Poetry Ruurd R. Nauta,Harm-Jan van Dam,Johannes Jacobus Louis Smolenaars No preview available - 2006 |