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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... marked a break with the past , if not the assumption of a new identity - as when a Christian takes a new name at confirmation , or a Pope on election . ' Augustus ' was a name unlike that of any Roman in history : the adjective means ...
... marked a break with the past , if not the assumption of a new identity - as when a Christian takes a new name at confirmation , or a Pope on election . ' Augustus ' was a name unlike that of any Roman in history : the adjective means ...
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... marked the soft grass , going down to the Castalian spring . Now , great goddess of the sheep - folds , now , if ever , I must speak in a fuller tone ! It is interesting to see the nature of Virgil's apprehension and the way he meets it ...
... marked the soft grass , going down to the Castalian spring . Now , great goddess of the sheep - folds , now , if ever , I must speak in a fuller tone ! It is interesting to see the nature of Virgil's apprehension and the way he meets it ...
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... marked out by Fortune never to return home . The high - spirited and handsome young Lausus is the son of the cruel and godless Etruscan king Mezentius , driven into exile by the justified hatred of his people . 92 VIRGIL.
... marked out by Fortune never to return home . The high - spirited and handsome young Lausus is the son of the cruel and godless Etruscan king Mezentius , driven into exile by the justified hatred of his people . 92 VIRGIL.
Contents
Rome and Arcadia | 19 |
the Muse in hobnails | 34 |
The Aeneid and the myth of Rome | 55 |
Copyright | |
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