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... origins in myth . It is certainly no accident that Silius , depicting the crucial moment in the history of the two nations , should have had turned to myth to bring about , through the expedient of divine intervention in favour of the ...
... origins in myth . It is certainly no accident that Silius , depicting the crucial moment in the history of the two nations , should have had turned to myth to bring about , through the expedient of divine intervention in favour of the ...
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... origins to the author's own day46 . The Bellum Poenicum , written during the final years of the second Punic War to celebrate the first war against the Carthaginians and at the same time the Trojan origins of the Roman people , comes ...
... origins to the author's own day46 . The Bellum Poenicum , written during the final years of the second Punic War to celebrate the first war against the Carthaginians and at the same time the Trojan origins of the Roman people , comes ...
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... origin of the republic ( or at least of its ideology ) were disintegrating before his eyes , in Silius history itself ... origins is a form of withdrawal . 88. Whether the ' return ' to Virgil may be considered a true ' recovery ' or not ...
... origin of the republic ( or at least of its ideology ) were disintegrating before his eyes , in Silius history itself ... origins is a form of withdrawal . 88. Whether the ' return ' to Virgil may be considered a true ' recovery ' or not ...
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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 |