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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The two sides of the output of the Neoteric circle seemed to leave no place for the considered expression of serious thought on central and contemporary subjects , while the grand utterance and poetic power of Lucretius were placed at ...
The two sides of the output of the Neoteric circle seemed to leave no place for the considered expression of serious thought on central and contemporary subjects , while the grand utterance and poetic power of Lucretius were placed at ...
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All this seems to be the expression of an essentially simple set of values , surprising indeed in the poet who was so shortly to embark on the supreme epic of Rome , but comprehensible in terms of one paticular line of ancient thought .
All this seems to be the expression of an essentially simple set of values , surprising indeed in the poet who was so shortly to embark on the supreme epic of Rome , but comprehensible in terms of one paticular line of ancient thought .
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And he , not for the only time in the poem , is inarticulate ( at 4.390 he is said to be ' hesitating and having much to say ' but he does not succeed in expressing it ) . He carries out the divine orders and sails away , while Dido ...
And he , not for the only time in the poem , is inarticulate ( at 4.390 he is said to be ' hesitating and having much to say ' but he does not succeed in expressing it ) . He carries out the divine orders and sails away , while Dido ...
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Contents
Rome and Arcadia | 19 |
the Muse in hobnails | 34 |
The Aeneid and the myth of Rome | 55 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Virgil Ancients in Action |
| Author | Jasper Griffin |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Academic, 2001 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 14 Apr 2008 |
| ISBN | 1853996262, 9781853996269 |
| Length | 120 pages |
| Subjects | › Literary Collections / Ancient & Classical Literary Criticism / Ancient & Classical Poetry / Ancient & Classical |
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