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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... Romans naturally looked for the forms of literature . The clear lines and classic quality of the Greek forms so dominated Roman taste that a work of art which did not respect them would have seemed merely barbarous , not recognisable as ...
... Romans naturally looked for the forms of literature . The clear lines and classic quality of the Greek forms so dominated Roman taste that a work of art which did not respect them would have seemed merely barbarous , not recognisable as ...
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... Roman patriotism , without which Roman history became unintel- ligible and his epic would be pointless ; here he found that the Iliad , by contrast , observes a serene and dispassionate objectivity between Greeks and Trojans . Second ...
... Roman patriotism , without which Roman history became unintel- ligible and his epic would be pointless ; here he found that the Iliad , by contrast , observes a serene and dispassionate objectivity between Greeks and Trojans . Second ...
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... Roman Empire , the poet allows us to hear another voice beneath the superficial acceptance of Octavian and his new Roman order a voice of the individual sensibility , with its own resources and standards , capable of withdrawing and ...
... Roman Empire , the poet allows us to hear another voice beneath the superficial acceptance of Octavian and his new Roman order a voice of the individual sensibility , with its own resources and standards , capable of withdrawing and ...
Contents
Rome and Arcadia | 19 |
the Muse in hobnails | 34 |
The Aeneid and the myth of Rome | 55 |
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