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
... finally reached Italy , he finds himself forced to fight a savage war with the Italians . He goes in quest of allies to the old king Evander , who has a little settlement at the foot of the Palatine , on the site which one day will be ...
... finally reached Italy , he finds himself forced to fight a savage war with the Italians . He goes in quest of allies to the old king Evander , who has a little settlement at the foot of the Palatine , on the site which one day will be ...
Page 83
... the Iliad Achilles , having killed Hector , refuses to surrender his corpse for burial and , in the ecstasy of hatred , drags it behind his chariot . Finally the gods intervene : Zeus sends THE AENEID AND THE MYTH OF ROME 883.
... the Iliad Achilles , having killed Hector , refuses to surrender his corpse for burial and , in the ecstasy of hatred , drags it behind his chariot . Finally the gods intervene : Zeus sends THE AENEID AND THE MYTH OF ROME 883.
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... finally tells Juno that her opposition must cease : ' I forbid you to meddle further ' ( 12.806 ) . She knows that destiny plans victory and immortality for Aeneas , that she has already been allowed to do her worst , that she must finally ...
... finally tells Juno that her opposition must cease : ' I forbid you to meddle further ' ( 12.806 ) . She knows that destiny plans victory and immortality for Aeneas , that she has already been allowed to do her worst , that she must finally ...
Contents
Rome and Arcadia | 19 |
the Muse in hobnails | 34 |
The Aeneid and the myth of Rome | 55 |
Copyright | |
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