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... poet , takes up the burden of his times . It is the purpose of these pages to follow up Virgil as a Julian ... poetic progress — a truly formal , classic life - work - Bucolics IV , the promise , the Georgics the crisis , the Aeneid the ...
... poet , takes up the burden of his times . It is the purpose of these pages to follow up Virgil as a Julian ... poetic progress — a truly formal , classic life - work - Bucolics IV , the promise , the Georgics the crisis , the Aeneid the ...
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... poet is speaking out of Evan- der's mouth and so Evander speaks as if he were living in , say , 27 B.C. But why ? This sudden change of character is not at all the same thing as the poet's breaking in as , e.g. , to invoke 1So Warde ...
... poet is speaking out of Evan- der's mouth and so Evander speaks as if he were living in , say , 27 B.C. But why ? This sudden change of character is not at all the same thing as the poet's breaking in as , e.g. , to invoke 1So Warde ...
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... poet : but it is not often that any classical poet sets himself such a task as Virgil essayed in Aeneid VIII . He had not only to devise a scene for Augustus ' triumph : he had to carry on at the same time the action of his epic . Not ...
... poet : but it is not often that any classical poet sets himself such a task as Virgil essayed in Aeneid VIII . He had not only to devise a scene for Augustus ' triumph : he had to carry on at the same time the action of his epic . Not ...
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Acestes Achates Actian games Actium Aeneas and Augustus Aeneid VIII Agrippa allegory allusion altar Anchises Ancyr Apollo Appian B.C. Ara Maxima aram auctor August 13 autem B.C. Augustus Baccho Bucolics Cacus Caesar fell ill Carmenta Catiline celebrated character clemency comet contemporary Curia Julia death deus Dido Dio Cass Dio Cassius Dio Cassius 51 divine Donatus emperor epic Evander's fact Forum Boarium Gardthausen Georgics gladiatorial haec Hercules hero ingens interpretation ipse Julius Caesar Juno Juppiter laurel Livia Ludi magno Mark Antony Mezentius mihi Mnestheus namque nouamus Octavian parallelism between Aeneas pater perhaps Pliny poem poet poet's portent Potitius procul quae maxima semper quam quod reader Roman Rome Salii says scene Scribonia senate Servius Sextus Pompeius shield Sicily story Suet Suetonius Suetonius Diu temple Trojan Troy Game Turnus u. s. Zeit uina Venus verse victory Virgil virtues