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... story at least as old as the First Punic War , and which portrayed the war between Rome and Carthage as a fraternum bellum . Nevius then took up this motif as a natural explanation of the hat- red Dido's Carthaginian descendents ...
... story at least as old as the First Punic War , and which portrayed the war between Rome and Carthage as a fraternum bellum . Nevius then took up this motif as a natural explanation of the hat- red Dido's Carthaginian descendents ...
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... 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 story takes up some hundred and fifty lines of ...
... 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 story takes up some hundred and fifty lines of ...
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... story of an antiquarian substratum73 . Both Ovid and Silius speak of the storm which struck Anna's ship after she had fled the Mediterranean island as a consequence of her brother's threats . This theme , however , takes up a different ...
... story of an antiquarian substratum73 . Both Ovid and Silius speak of the storm which struck Anna's ship after she had fled the Mediterranean island as a consequence of her brother's threats . This theme , however , takes up a different ...
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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 |