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 72
... leave them ( and such of the men as want to go no further ) in Sicily with King Acestes . But when the time comes for Aeneas and the others to sail on : " Then there was weeping on the shore and embracing . Even the women , even the men ...
... leave them ( and such of the men as want to go no further ) in Sicily with King Acestes . But when the time comes for Aeneas and the others to sail on : " Then there was weeping on the shore and embracing . Even the women , even the men ...
Page 82
... leave without telling her ; he never married her ; he is leaving under duress . If he had his own choice , he says tactlessly , he would have stayed in Troy and rebuilt the city ; it is the gods who order him away . ' Do not work us ...
... leave without telling her ; he never married her ; he is leaving under duress . If he had his own choice , he says tactlessly , he would have stayed in Troy and rebuilt the city ; it is the gods who order him away . ' Do not work us ...
Page 83
... leave her and he begs her to speak to him . She keeps an unbroken and angry silence , her eyes fixed on the ground , then turns away and vanishes into the gloom , leaving the hero to watch her go , tears of pity in his eyes . Ancient ...
... leave her and he begs her to speak to him . She keeps an unbroken and angry silence , her eyes fixed on the ground , then turns away and vanishes into the gloom , leaving the hero to watch her go , tears of pity in his eyes . Ancient ...
Contents
Rome and Arcadia | 19 |
the Muse in hobnails | 34 |
The Aeneid and the myth of Rome | 55 |
Copyright | |
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