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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... figure of his age . The out- put of Catullus and his friends ( the Neoteric or New Poet's [ novi poetae ] ) fell into two classes : on the one hand short and personal poems , which might be scurrilous squibs , passionate lyrics or ...
... figure of his age . The out- put of Catullus and his friends ( the Neoteric or New Poet's [ novi poetae ] ) fell into two classes : on the one hand short and personal poems , which might be scurrilous squibs , passionate lyrics or ...
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... figure of Daphnis the Roman reader was meant to detect some glimmer of the figure of Caesar . This technique be- comes important in the Aeneid , where Aeneas allows us to catch glimpses of Augustus , while Dido , the African queen ...
... figure of Daphnis the Roman reader was meant to detect some glimmer of the figure of Caesar . This technique be- comes important in the Aeneid , where Aeneas allows us to catch glimpses of Augustus , while Dido , the African queen ...
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... figure by Virgil out of Theocritus , enduring and vocalising his amorous pain in Arcadia . The musical change involved in turning elegiac couplets into hexameters is part of the pleasure of the work , which is , of course , among other ...
... figure by Virgil out of Theocritus , enduring and vocalising his amorous pain in Arcadia . The musical change involved in turning elegiac couplets into hexameters is part of the pleasure of the work , which is , of course , among other ...
Contents
Rome and Arcadia | 19 |
the Muse in hobnails | 34 |
The Aeneid and the myth of Rome | 55 |
Copyright | |
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