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... seen , in Book VIII Juno sends Anna , nymph of the Numicius , to encourage the despairing Carthaginian general , and there is a variant of this motif in the episode in Book IV , 722-738 , where the goddess takes on the appearance of ...
... seen , in Book VIII Juno sends Anna , nymph of the Numicius , to encourage the despairing Carthaginian general , and there is a variant of this motif in the episode in Book IV , 722-738 , where the goddess takes on the appearance of ...
Page 103
... seen as tireless producer of phenomena , as a storehouse of mysteries . Seneca's treatise on the fires of the air is relevant here ( 7 ff . ) : tunc consummatum habet plenumque bonum sortis humanae cum calcato omni malo petit altum et ...
... seen as tireless producer of phenomena , as a storehouse of mysteries . Seneca's treatise on the fires of the air is relevant here ( 7 ff . ) : tunc consummatum habet plenumque bonum sortis humanae cum calcato omni malo petit altum et ...
Page 111
... seen as a clear reflection of the attitudes of the intellectual élites of the Empire , the younger Pliny does not merely speak with reverence of the waters of the Clitumnus , but even hints at the dis- tinction between the lower and ...
... seen as a clear reflection of the attitudes of the intellectual élites of the Empire , the younger Pliny does not merely speak with reverence of the waters of the Clitumnus , but even hints at the dis- tinction between the lower and ...
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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 |