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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... language . For all those peoples who did not already have literary works of their own , the seductions of Greek form , as well as the possibility which it opened up of an international audience , were too strong . So , in the end ...
... language . For all those peoples who did not already have literary works of their own , the seductions of Greek form , as well as the possibility which it opened up of an international audience , were too strong . So , in the end ...
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... language is altogether too hyperbolic for such a political marriage , whose issue was , in fact , to be two daughters and then the husband deserting Octavia for Cleopatra . The language is indeed prophetic and the Messianic parallels ...
... language is altogether too hyperbolic for such a political marriage , whose issue was , in fact , to be two daughters and then the husband deserting Octavia for Cleopatra . The language is indeed prophetic and the Messianic parallels ...
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... language as in dress and equipment . Here come the Nomads and the Africans in flowing robes , here the Lele- gians and Carians and Gelonians with their bows and arrows ... the Euphrates is humbled , and the Rhine , and the untamed ...
... language as in dress and equipment . Here come the Nomads and the Africans in flowing robes , here the Lele- gians and Carians and Gelonians with their bows and arrows ... the Euphrates is humbled , and the Rhine , and the untamed ...
Contents
Rome and Arcadia | 19 |
the Muse in hobnails | 34 |
The Aeneid and the myth of Rome | 55 |
Copyright | |
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