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 41
... driven to water , to make them keener to graze when they come back again . In the midday heat , until it cools down , they are driven under shady rocks and spreading trees to cool off . In the evening air they graze again till sunset ...
... driven to water , to make them keener to graze when they come back again . In the midday heat , until it cools down , they are driven under shady rocks and spreading trees to cool off . In the evening air they graze again till sunset ...
Page 61
... driven to the expedient of making King Latinus an elderly and ineffective ruler who looks on unhappily as younger and more violent men do the fighting . At the end of the Aeneid he remains alive to make a union with Aeneas . That detail ...
... driven to the expedient of making King Latinus an elderly and ineffective ruler who looks on unhappily as younger and more violent men do the fighting . At the end of the Aeneid he remains alive to make a union with Aeneas . That detail ...
Page 92
... , marked out by Fortune never to return home . The high - spirited and handsome young Lausus is the son of the cruel and godless Etruscan king Mezentius , driven into exile by the justified hatred of his people . 92 VIRGIL.
... , marked out by Fortune never to return home . The high - spirited and handsome young Lausus is the son of the cruel and godless Etruscan king Mezentius , driven into exile by the justified hatred of his people . 92 VIRGIL.
Contents
Rome and Arcadia | 19 |
the Muse in hobnails | 34 |
The Aeneid and the myth of Rome | 55 |
Copyright | |
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