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 48
... gods put together . It is still undecided , says the poet , what the special province of this new god is to be . Will he be a god of cities and of the land or perhaps a god of the sea ? Perhaps the sea - goddess Tethys will gain him as ...
... gods put together . It is still undecided , says the poet , what the special province of this new god is to be . Will he be a god of cities and of the land or perhaps a god of the sea ? Perhaps the sea - goddess Tethys will gain him as ...
Page 58
... gods and heroes . Achilles is not just a champion fighter ; he is also the son of a goddess , a man whose deeds and sufferings are of immediate and personal interest to all the gods . The Olympians show passionate partisanship for and ...
... gods and heroes . Achilles is not just a champion fighter ; he is also the son of a goddess , a man whose deeds and sufferings are of immediate and personal interest to all the gods . The Olympians show passionate partisanship for and ...
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... gods the glorious but exacting task of transferring the Trojan gods to Italy and establishing there a community which shall one day found the city Rome , which will rule the world . In the first six books the wanderings of the hero ...
... gods the glorious but exacting task of transferring the Trojan gods to Italy and establishing there a community which shall one day found the city Rome , which will rule the world . In the first six books the wanderings of the hero ...
Contents
Rome and Arcadia | 19 |
the Muse in hobnails | 34 |
The Aeneid and the myth of Rome | 55 |
Copyright | |
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