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... past , from the Second Punic War , and his model is the highest example of Latin epic poetry , the Aeneid : not the mythical past of Greece , then , but Roman history , not a grim episode of civil war but the moment of greatest trial ...
... past , from the Second Punic War , and his model is the highest example of Latin epic poetry , the Aeneid : not the mythical past of Greece , then , but Roman history , not a grim episode of civil war but the moment of greatest trial ...
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... past is reflected in the writer's consciousness : sicut aquae splendor , radiatus lampade solis , dissultat per tecta , vaga sub imagine vibrans luminis , et tremula laquearia verberat umbra ( 7 , 143 -145 ) And the past is the theme of ...
... past is reflected in the writer's consciousness : sicut aquae splendor , radiatus lampade solis , dissultat per tecta , vaga sub imagine vibrans luminis , et tremula laquearia verberat umbra ( 7 , 143 -145 ) And the past is the theme of ...
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... past can only be evoked with the dignity of a museum piece , having become too dis- tant to be used in interpreting the present , and where the coming to- gether of a huge patrimony of myths , legends and geographical and ethnographical ...
... past can only be evoked with the dignity of a museum piece , having become too dis- tant to be used in interpreting the present , and where the coming to- gether of a huge patrimony of myths , legends and geographical and ethnographical ...
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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 |