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... poet to dedicate to problems of composition and treatment of sources the cura Alexandrian or Neoteric poets could vaunt . Nevertheless , nearly two thousand years later , Pliny's words are quoted every time a general evaluation of the ...
... poet to dedicate to problems of composition and treatment of sources the cura Alexandrian or Neoteric poets could vaunt . Nevertheless , nearly two thousand years later , Pliny's words are quoted every time a general evaluation of the ...
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... poet takes after Ovid , whose Fasti narrate myths and legends from Roman archaeology without special attention to the reigning ideology . On the other hand , and this sets him apart from the poet of Sulmona , legend is used as a code ...
... poet takes after Ovid , whose Fasti narrate myths and legends from Roman archaeology without special attention to the reigning ideology . On the other hand , and this sets him apart from the poet of Sulmona , legend is used as a code ...
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... poet seeks to graft his own discourse onto the traditional ' archaeologies ' of Carthage and Rome , as found above all in Book IV of the Aeneid . If he is not entirely successful , this is because the other text he draws on , the Fasti ...
... poet seeks to graft his own discourse onto the traditional ' archaeologies ' of Carthage and Rome , as found above all in Book IV of the Aeneid . If he is not entirely successful , this is because the other text he draws on , the Fasti ...
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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 |