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
... effect of making the divine will constantly perceptible as active in events . Nothing happens by chance in the world of the Aeneid . It also shows the necessity for Virgilian man to be pious , to be alert for indications of that divine ...
... effect of making the divine will constantly perceptible as active in events . Nothing happens by chance in the world of the Aeneid . It also shows the necessity for Virgilian man to be pious , to be alert for indications of that divine ...
Page 65
... effects . It is interesting to compare the opening of Catullus ' poem , which describes the sailing of the ship Argo in quest of the Golden Fleece , with Virgil's description , where he certainly had the Catul- lan passage in mind , of ...
... effects . It is interesting to compare the opening of Catullus ' poem , which describes the sailing of the ship Argo in quest of the Golden Fleece , with Virgil's description , where he certainly had the Catul- lan passage in mind , of ...
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... effect , sending Mercury with a peremptory message to Aeneas . The hero , aghast , plans an inconspicuous departure , ' while the excellent Dido knew nothing and had no thought that their great love was being broken off ' ( 4.291-2 ) ...
... effect , sending Mercury with a peremptory message to Aeneas . The hero , aghast , plans an inconspicuous departure , ' while the excellent Dido knew nothing and had no thought that their great love was being broken off ' ( 4.291-2 ) ...
Contents
Rome and Arcadia | 19 |
the Muse in hobnails | 34 |
The Aeneid and the myth of Rome | 55 |
Copyright | |
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