The Burial-places of Memory: Epic Underworlds in Vergil, Dante, and Milton |
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... hero's recounting of his experience before the monarch who has provided him a haven comes to have such catastrophic ... hero under divine auspices through a kind of ritual recapitulation of his experience and ultimately to free him from ...
... hero's recounting of his experience before the monarch who has provided him a haven comes to have such catastrophic ... hero under divine auspices through a kind of ritual recapitulation of his experience and ultimately to free him from ...
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... hero ( and not just with his story ) , with the history of the collective that the hero will found , and finally with the history of the epic genre in which the deeds of hero and collective are recorded . These various histories are ...
... hero ( and not just with his story ) , with the history of the collective that the hero will found , and finally with the history of the epic genre in which the deeds of hero and collective are recorded . These various histories are ...
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... hero and the new ethic which that hero is in the process of acquiring in his underworld journey . " ' Licet ingens ianitor an- tro / aeternum latrans exsanguis terreat umbras ' " ( 6.399–400 ) , the Sybil says in her impatient rejoinder ...
... hero and the new ethic which that hero is in the process of acquiring in his underworld journey . " ' Licet ingens ianitor an- tro / aeternum latrans exsanguis terreat umbras ' " ( 6.399–400 ) , the Sybil says in her impatient rejoinder ...
Contents
The Easy Descent from Avernus | 17 |
Language and History | 57 |
Traditions and the Individual Talent | 118 |
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