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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Page 63
... destiny that he must sacrifice everything to the god - given task of founding Rome and yet that he will not be allowed to do it . He must take it all on trust up to the end . It is in harmony with this that the whole poem is studded ...
... destiny that he must sacrifice everything to the god - given task of founding Rome and yet that he will not be allowed to do it . He must take it all on trust up to the end . It is in harmony with this that the whole poem is studded ...
Page 64
... destiny of his descendants . Here the pathos of the pioneer , who must work for a result which he will never see , is yet more powerful than in the figure of the hero visiting the still rustic scene which will be Rome . He is allowed to ...
... destiny of his descendants . Here the pathos of the pioneer , who must work for a result which he will never see , is yet more powerful than in the figure of the hero visiting the still rustic scene which will be Rome . He is allowed to ...
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... destiny has meant that the people of Rome have had to renounce the enticing delights of art , of beauty , even of love . They have had to become the agents of a providence which is little interested in their pleasures or even their ...
... destiny has meant that the people of Rome have had to renounce the enticing delights of art , of beauty , even of love . They have had to become the agents of a providence which is little interested in their pleasures or even their ...
Contents
Rome and Arcadia | 19 |
the Muse in hobnails | 34 |
The Aeneid and the myth of Rome | 55 |
Copyright | |
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