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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... Juno ' , the poet departs from the objective manner , traditional in Homeric epic , in which the person- ality of the singer is not revealed . He turns to a more evidently emotional style , asking the Muse , in the traditional way , to ...
... Juno ' , the poet departs from the objective manner , traditional in Homeric epic , in which the person- ality of the singer is not revealed . He turns to a more evidently emotional style , asking the Muse , in the traditional way , to ...
Page 78
... Juno and Venus who conspire , for very different motives , to force the issue . Juno hopes to keep Aeneas in Carthage , so that Rome will never come into existence ; Venus wants Dido to be nice to her son . Venus substitutes the boy ...
... Juno and Venus who conspire , for very different motives , to force the issue . Juno hopes to keep Aeneas in Carthage , so that Rome will never come into existence ; Venus wants Dido to be nice to her son . Venus substitutes the boy ...
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... Juno stirred up against the immi- grants in Italy , brought to an end when at last Aeneas kills Turnus , the Italian prince who is his rival for the hand of Lavinia , daughter of old King Latinus - the royal bride who was predicted by ...
... Juno stirred up against the immi- grants in Italy , brought to an end when at last Aeneas kills Turnus , the Italian prince who is his rival for the hand of Lavinia , daughter of old King Latinus - the royal bride who was predicted by ...
Contents
Rome and Arcadia | 19 |
the Muse in hobnails | 34 |
The Aeneid and the myth of Rome | 55 |
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