VirgilVirgil lived through the fall of the Roman Republic and the establishment of the Empire. In his poems we see a series of attempts, increasingly ambitious in scale and conception, to combine technical brilliance and beauty with profound meditation on the nature of imperialism and the relation of the individual to the State. From short pastoral poems on love and song he progressed to the heroic myth of the founding of Rome. "The Aeneid", immediately recognised as the greatest masterpiece of Latin literature, has had incalculable influence on European literature in the two thousand years since it was first published. |
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... Italy suffered during the poet's lifetime . In 63 , when Virgil was just seven years old , Catiline , at the head of an Italian army , fell fighting in a pitched battle against Roman legions . The 50s were a decade of mounting disorder ...
... Italy suffered during the poet's lifetime . In 63 , when Virgil was just seven years old , Catiline , at the head of an Italian army , fell fighting in a pitched battle against Roman legions . The 50s were a decade of mounting disorder ...
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... Italy and reflect on its superiority to less happy lands : ' What useful product is there which does not grow to perfection in Italy ? What wheat shall I compare to that of Apulia , what wine to Falernian , what olive oil to that from ...
... Italy and reflect on its superiority to less happy lands : ' What useful product is there which does not grow to perfection in Italy ? What wheat shall I compare to that of Apulia , what wine to Falernian , what olive oil to that from ...
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... Italian hardihood make Rome great . This picks up a theme which has been touched on elsewhere in the poem - the moral character of the Italian people . A powerful speech in the Ninth book points a contrast be- tween the effeminate ...
... Italian hardihood make Rome great . This picks up a theme which has been touched on elsewhere in the poem - the moral character of the Italian people . A powerful speech in the Ninth book points a contrast be- tween the effeminate ...
Contents
Rome and Arcadia | 19 |
the Muse in hobnails | 34 |
The Aeneid and the myth of Rome | 55 |
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