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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... Trojan hero Aeneas , the son of the goddess Aphrodite ( in Latin , Venus ) . That pro- vided a link with the world ... Trojans . It was an extra advantage that the fall of Troy served to explain their turning up in remote places ; it ...
... Trojan hero Aeneas , the son of the goddess Aphrodite ( in Latin , Venus ) . That pro- vided a link with the world ... Trojans . It was an extra advantage that the fall of Troy served to explain their turning up in remote places ; it ...
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... Trojan story showed the Romans as the equals ( in antiquity and heroism ) of the Greeks and the foundation of their city as the direct work of heaven -a theme worthy of epic verse . Subsequent Roman history , to be included in the poem ...
... Trojan story showed the Romans as the equals ( in antiquity and heroism ) of the Greeks and the foundation of their city as the direct work of heaven -a theme worthy of epic verse . Subsequent Roman history , to be included in the poem ...
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... Trojan race shall rule there , until Romulus founds Rome and names its people after himself -Romans : his ego nec metas rerum nec tempora pono : imperium sine fine dedi . ( A 1.278-9 ) To them I set no limit in space or time : empire I ...
... Trojan race shall rule there , until Romulus founds Rome and names its people after himself -Romans : his ego nec metas rerum nec tempora pono : imperium sine fine dedi . ( A 1.278-9 ) To them I set no limit in space or time : empire I ...
Contents
Rome and Arcadia | 19 |
the Muse in hobnails | 34 |
The Aeneid and the myth of Rome | 55 |
Copyright | |
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