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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 28
Page 48
At the beginning of the Georgics Virgil addresses an elaborate and lengthy invocation to the gods and goddesses who patronise agriculture , animals and wild places out of doors ( G 1.5-23 ) . The surprise for the reader comes in what ...
At the beginning of the Georgics Virgil addresses an elaborate and lengthy invocation to the gods and goddesses who patronise agriculture , animals and wild places out of doors ( G 1.5-23 ) . The surprise for the reader comes in what ...
Page 73
It will not have escaped the reader that in every one of these cases it is the impulsion of the gods which produces the pitiful scenes and pathetic language . After these preliminary remarks it is time to turn to the structure of the ...
It will not have escaped the reader that in every one of these cases it is the impulsion of the gods which produces the pitiful scenes and pathetic language . After these preliminary remarks it is time to turn to the structure of the ...
Page 96
a a crucial point in the poem seems designed to make us meditate on the morality of the great god who has just settled ... a local nymph with a much less ceremony and who now demands of the hero a virtue which exceeds that of the gods .
a a crucial point in the poem seems designed to make us meditate on the morality of the great god who has just settled ... a local nymph with a much less ceremony and who now demands of the hero a virtue which exceeds that of the gods .
What people are saying - Write a review
We haven't found any reviews in the usual places.
Contents
Rome and Arcadia | 19 |
the Muse in hobnails | 34 |
The Aeneid and the myth of Rome | 55 |
Copyright | |
2 other sections not shown
Common terms and phrases
Aeneas Aeneid allowed ancient appears Augustus battle bees begins bring Caesar called century civil classic comes course death destiny Dido divine driven Eclogues effect emotions Empire epic expression fact father feel fighting figure finally follows friends Georgics give goddess gods goes Greek hand happy hard hero Homer human idea important included Italian Italy Juno Jupiter killed king language Latin leave less lines literature live look marked means meant mind moral nature Octavian opening passage passion pastoral poem poet poetry political present produce question reader Roman Rome rustic says scene seems seen shows simple sing song stand story style suffering suggest tell Theocritus things Trojan Troy turn Turnus verse Virgil Virgilian whole write young
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 |
| Export Citation | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |